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Fireworks, bands and picnics are predictable. The Bicentennial has also aroused inventive imaginations. Some time ago, Chicago Attorney Marvin Rosenblum dreamed up "hands across America," a grand scheme to link the nation from coast to coast with a human chain to symbolize American unity. The plan would require at least 5 million people grasping hands, so Rosenblum has lowered his expectations. Now there will be only bits and pieces of the human chain-about ten miles' worth on Chicago's South Side, for example...
...Marvin's wife Millie (Barbara Barrie) is on her way up to the suite. What follows is a kind of Feydeau farce with one bedroom door. The scene has been directed with dazzling adroitness by Gene Saks, and Jack Weston's portray al of a human pachyderm in direst panic would bring tears of joy to the eyes of Zero Mostel...
...drill-sergeant type named Marvin rants a bit and goes over the rules four or five times. We already know them: no chatting, smoking or notetaking; no getting out of the chair for any reason except for "the maximum" of one food break per day and widely spaced bathroom breaks. Around Manhattan, est is known as the "no-pee therapy." Bladder control is crucial. At some sessions, trainees have been known to announce "I have just wet my pants and it doesn't matter," sitting down happily, if soggily, to tumultuous applause...
Though Brown, 38, regards himself as the exemplar of a new generation in politics, his strategy had old-fashioned aspects. He eagerly embraced every stop-Carter machine politician who offered help, notably Governor Marvin Mandel and Baltimore County Executive Ted Venetoulis. Observing that Carter also welcomed organization support, Brown quipped, "You've heard the old biblical expression, In my father's house there are many machines...
...following people have been elected to one-year terms as student directors of the Harvard Cooperative Society: Robert A. Wasson, MIT; Charles F. Wu '79; Marvin N. Bagwell '76; Jonathan L.S. Byrnes, Harvard Business School; Cindy Raynor '78; Darcy Bradbury '78; Elisa A. Botta '78; Douglas C. Knott, MIT; Cynthia E. Cole. MIT; Max Donath, MIT; George A. Mabry, Harvard Business School...