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...heart of the play is a simple country maid who hears what she believes to be divine voices. Are they heavenly or hallucinatory? She secures access to France's Dauphin (Edward Zang) and convinces him of her inspired mission to raise his nation from the mire of defeat and British occupation. She dons a soldier's garb, leads the army to lift the siege at Orléans, and then crowns the Dauphin King in Rheims Cathedral...
...rather ambiguous generation, many of whom have forgotten what it is all about. The draft dissenters wade through the crumpled bubble-gum wrappers on the streets of our cities waving signs and mumbling chants, but it is the men "over there" that must wade through the muck and mire of war as it really...
Having lived 30 years in Watts, Watkins knew firsthand what was needed to lift the area from the mire of resentment and despair: first a hospital, next employment for the angry kids, then a start on badly needed adult payrolls. Watkins linked jobs with community improvement and got money to spend on all three projects. He also persuaded the Los Angeles city government to let him plant vegetable gardens along water-main rights of way in the widely ducted conurbation, putting farm-bred Southern migrants to work for pay at the only jobs they know well...
With inborn bayou cunning and every parliamentary trick and threat learned in 18 years on Capitol Hill, Louisiana's Russell Long has managed to mire the U.S. Senate in a month-long procedural gumbo. While many more pressing issues clamor for attention, the assistant majority leader has made his ill-conceived, hastily passed 1966 Presidential Election Campaign Fund Act the upper chamber's overriding concern. The measure would give up to $30 million each to the Republican and Democratic parties from $1 contributions checked off federal income tax returns. Though the Senate has already voted three times...
...feeling of guilt for the sins of their fathers or out of indifference to the Negro as a meaningful member of society, have looked the other way when Negroes have committed wrongs. Concomitantly, many responsible Negroes have taken advantage of such attitudes and wallowed in the mire of second-class citizenship because of the special privileges it afforded. Informed Negroes know this very well...