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times in a monotonic chant, spoke against people with long hair and mod clothes. In the past this same man has preached against the VISTA project. He then told the story of the Dutch boy who put his finger in the dike; the preacher said that the United States was about to burst wide open and that everyone should put his finger in the dike. Wild. Then, speaking figuratively, he said that God would make us drive our new cars straight and on the right side of the road...
...wearing cowboy boots and a crew haircut, and he keeps telling us to share our feelings. One addict, Arthur, admits that he has half a pack in his pocket. "Put it on the table," the doctor suggests. Reluctantly, he does. As we watch, horrified, a sincere young mod named Lana picks up the packet and shreds the cigarettes. Shaken, we head for our bunks...
Pull No Wool. Another encouraging development is the effective use of all-black or white-black "mod squad" patrols in the ghettoas in New York and Detroit. But New York's Eldridge Waith was chastised by the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association for allowing himself to be frisked when he entered a church held by the Puerto Rican Young Lords, though by doing so Waith managed to help defuse a potentially dangerous situation. "We are not saying we are going to work with them," Waith notes, "but there's no doubt that in terms...
...four performers that handled the opening show proved to be in tune with the moods of Brel's material. George Ball and Bob Jeffries, the male half of the quartet, lacked any of the sense of hurt or loss that underlies Brel. Their dress, the inevitable tentative mod, their hair, just a touch of long, their manners, frightfully winning, the two looked less like Brel's sailors and soldiers and cast-off lovers, rather more like two Red Sox players in an off-season gig, or, worse yet, the male models in a Sears Roebuck catalogue. Annette Pirrone...
...goggle at the groom's mum (in white wool pants and a rink-sized diamond) and her husband, Richard Burton (in business suit and a new slim, "off-the-sauce" look). No wedding reception, no honeymoon. "Too old-fashioned," explained a p.r. man. "These are a couple of mod kids...