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...morning a mob of some 350 teenagers from nearby Nicholls High School cut classes and charged toward McDonogh 19, roaring out a football-styled chant: "Two-Four-Six-Eight, We Don't Want to Integrate." Police steered the students away from their target, but segregationist tempers started to flare. That night 6,000 whites jammed into a White Citizen's Council rally at the municipal auditorium. They stamped and shouted as former State Senator Willie Rainach ranted warnings of the "conspiracy for the destruction of the white race," and Leander Perez, the notorious political boss of Plaquemines Parish...
...Deep. By week's end it was apparent that New Orleans would be no Little Rock. For one thing, Jimmie Davis and his legislature, perhaps mindful of Little Rock, did not care to back their last-ditch segregation laws with National 'Guard power, and after flare-ups of violence they began calling for moderation. For another, New Orleans' 1,073-man police force, firmly directed by Mayor Morrison and his youthful (37) Chief Joseph Giarrusso, held the violence in check, gave Davis little justification for moving in with emergency troops. Davis actually had little support among...
...even considering how amusing the play can be, and eloquent and skillful, and how well George Roy Hill has directed and Barbara Baxley, James Daly and Robert Webber have acted it, a good deal seems somehow unsatisfying. There is, in the end, too much sense of mere surface, of flare-ups with more theater in them than truth, of Freud pinch-hitting for flesh and blood, of amusing little leitmotivs in place of incisive motivations. There is not much organic development, and at times scenes dribble on or go flat. Again, there is even here too much sex, or needless...
...many frames the camera cannot seem to find the speaker, and when it does cannot focus on his face. To give his picture a life like look, Engel uses no light except sunlight, so the film is sometimes muzzy sometimes (after a sudden change of sky) faulted with flare. Much of the time the actors' voices, picked up on the spot by a tape recorder, are muffled diffuse interrupted by bed squeaks, foot scrapes, street noises. But the sound is the sound the rooms have the look, the camera shares the confusion of real life. And real life...
Positive Thinking. Then, in mid-September, the luck of the campaign changed and dealt Nixon's prospects two jolting blows. First came the flare-up of the religion issue. Mindful that a massive Roman Catholic shift to Kennedy in the big-electoral-vote Northern states could swing the election, Nixon gave orders down through the ranks that the religion issue was not to be mentioned. But a group of 150 Protestant clergymen and laymen, headed by New York's Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (The Power of Positive Thinking) met in Washington to toss a headline-making anti-Catholic...