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Once upon a time there was probably no cotton-pickin' way to get Sammy Davis Jr., 56, onto the set of a television show like the yahoo repertory Hee Haw. But that was before the onetime freedom marcher ("I was there in Selma") was paid a backstage call by Roy Clark, 49, during a stint in Las Vegas. Next thing he knew Sammy was onstage in Nashville, with Minnie Pearl, 69. Says Davis: "I really felt welcome. We're all family." He even brought along his own wardrobe: six huge diamond rings, two diamond-and-gold bracelets...
...usual, he joined right in Saturday and began shouting, "God bless America." Warned by more experienced picketers to ignore the uninvited marcher, protesters first ignored the man, but later began calling him a "fascist pig" and an "anti-Semite...
...suffering from nervous attacks. William, her eldest brother, became America's foremost psychologist and one of the leading philosophers of the nineteenth century; another, Henry, now ranks among the greatest novelists in the English language. Alice, lacking their confidence and powers of expression, became an invalid. Like John Marcher, a character in one of Henry's later stories, her hallmark was "precisely to have been the person in the world to whom nothing whatever was to happen...
...easier to blame it on anti-Soviet hysteria in the capitalist camp. "I wonder if Carter watched the opening ceremony," said one elderly housewife. "If he did, he must have been sorry not to be able to see it all. The poor Americans." Angered that Britain had only one marcher in the opening parade, a Soviet television announcer told viewers: "There is the clumsy plot... against the traditions of the Olympic movement...
Security has been so easy for the last generation. A peace marcher now working in Carter's White House says, "I hate to even talk about it. The old 1960s measuring rods are useless. Concerns are so different. I have no moral yardstick. We must consider what we can do that will work, that will prevent...