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Sunday: The Maltese Falcon. With Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet...
Some high-ranking officials may be ready for a change. After Mary Ann Humphrey, an Army Reserve captain, was discharged for being a lesbian, she wrote a book called My Country, My Right to Serve and sent a copy to General Calvin Waller, who was General Norman Schwarzkopf's deputy in the gulf war. "I trust that you and all of the other individuals who have experienced such discrimination will one day have your day in court," he wrote back. "It appears that society is about to accept that every person should have the freedoms and privileges that are granted...
Aaron Henry recalls the days when Bobby Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey were on the line, calling from Washington to his tiny Fourth Street Drugstore in Clarksdale to give heart to the movement. Foot soldiers in the bloody civil rights wars crowded the store's narrow aisles in those days, desperation and what sometimes seemed like misplaced hope overcoming their justified fears. Now, in the soft afternoon shadow, the phone is silent, and there is only one visitor, come to ask how things have changed...
...streets and shop floors. Fifty years ago, the caustic, rumpled Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas would stomp through such gatherings reminding people that he rode the rods out of Yakima, Wash., to go to Columbia Law School in 1922. Twenty-five years ago, Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey palmed his way around the stately chambers in the righteous sheen of polyester. And a labor leader like George Meany still had the hands of a plumber. If there was anybody at the Harriman reception who had done physical labor in the past 10 years, or now makes less than...
...despite the crowds on Friday, White said that the Brattle has dwindled in popularity among undergraduates since its heyday in the 1960s, when students packed the theater during reading and exam periods for its traditional Humphrey Bogart film festivals...