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...task forces selected. "We're like a boxer on his toes," says Durham. Among Glide's more successful projects: a "Black People's Store" that supplies needy Negroes with free food, clothing and furniture; a "Citizens Alert" legal-aid group to guard against police brutality; two halfway houses for released mental patients. Glide was instrumental in organizing San Francisco's "Huckleberry House" for runaway youths (TIME, Sept. 15), has steered untold down-and-outers to rehabilitation and jobs...
...left Fenway Park quickly, satisfaction tempered by circumstances. The thought of another team in a simultaneous struggle halfway across the country and the lingering image of Killebrew's ninth inning home...
...seat number thirteen on every plane, flying standby continuously. Halfway through the ordeal, when he had to vault through a window to get by locked doors, he became tired of the whole idea...
...Useful criticism is necessary and helpful. But naive, ridiculous arguments as "Why should the U.S. engage in a war halfway around the world?" are irrational. Does anyone remember Pearl Harbor, Stalin's abortive promises at Yalta, the Communization of Eastern Europe? Maybe Korea rings a bell...
...idea I want to get rid of," said Theatrician Peter Ustinov, 46, "is that of Actor Ustinov coming in to save a fragile bauble-a script by Writer Ustinov." By way of making his point, Ustinov is looking on as his new play, Halfway Up the Tree, opens this season in five productions in four countries in three languages-and he won't have a role in any of them. Lest he seem totally idle, he will direct the New York version, hop over to London occasionally to watch Sir John Gielgud direct that company, shove on to France...