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FOLK BANJO STYLES (Elektra). The banjo, the only instrument native to the U.S., is becoming as much a part of the summer landscape as the mosquito. Here is a recital (Flop-Eared Mule, Nine Hundred Miles, Goodbye Old Booze) in various styles by four experts. On the sleeve, there is a written exposition for beginning listeners of plain and fancy picking: frailing, up-picking, two-finger, three-finger, and the virtuoso Scruggs style...
...ballerinas being hoisted to heaven on wires, madly flapping their arms and showering rose petals while spray guns hissed perfume into the audience. But the audiences hissed right back, and the Paris Opera, a towering rococo palace covering three acres right in the heart of the city, remained a flop...
...alternative, already suggested by such people as France's Charles de Gaulle, is to neutralize all of Southeast Asia. But U.S. officials would have to do an awful lot of rethinking before they bought that one, for Laos is proof positive of just how badly neutralization can flop. Another possibility is to expand the war to North Viet Nam with bombing raids and guerrilla attacks. That, too, has its pitfalls, for the upshot could be massive Red Chinese intervention, and another Korea. Still a third option is to keep muddling, as the U.S. has been doing. But that policy...
...white dividing line, a row of Guardsmen, bayonets fixed on their empty rifles, blocked the marchers' way. "Stop this and take them back!" Brigadier General George Gelston, commander of the Guard unit, yelled through a bullhorn to Gloria Richardson. The Wallace meeting, he told them, "is a complete flop. Don't ruin your chances by going over there. It's only half full." A bottle arced out of the darkness and smashed on Gelston's Jeep. Rocks were thrown at the Guardsmen, striking some. At length, Gloria persuaded the grumbling Negroes to retreat...
...wild-eyed, harebrained, crackpot scheme, and in the end it was a total flop. But before the end, it tried the patience of national, state and city officials, wasted taxpayers' money for protective measures, set a city of 8,000,000 on edge, and hurt the cause of civil rights...