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...wants to push God? Jones, in a mod getup vaguely suggesting the Blood of the Lamb, sings Jesus songs to a screaming multitude. Eventually he gets a kind of religion himself. To a crowd of dignitaries assembled to pay him homage, he mumbles "I hate you," and vanishes into oblivion with the One Girl (Jean Shrimpton) Who Really Understands...
...would defer an immediate riposte to Nasser's challenge, saying that he had decided on the "continuation of political activity in the international sphere." But he is under heavy domestic pressure to act, and the point may soon come when he will be forced to choose between political oblivion and a move against the Arabs...
...Alexander Buel Trowbridge, it was like a ticket to oblivion when he was appointed Acting Secretary of Commerce last January. The President had just announced that he aimed to eliminate Trowbridge's department-and his job-by merging Commerce and Labor into one superdepartment. Last week, in the face of unrelenting resistance to the merger in Congress and among labor leaders, Lyndon Johnson gave Commerce a new lease on life and, providing "Sandy" Trowbridge with at least temporary job security, nominated him full-fledged secretary of the reprieved department...
...from other commuters in Darien, Conn., where he has lived in recent years. He has five grown children (three sons, two daughters). Occasionally he appears in Washington's Smithsonian Institution and gazes up at the Spirit of St. Louis, dangling there, fragile but painstakingly guarded against rust and oblivion. He is seldom recognized. Yet any associate or friend who talks to a reporter about him is deprived of the light of his countenance. Typically, he refused to have any part in ceremonies celebrating the 40th anniversary of his flight. As a replica of the Spirit rose from Le Bourget...
Sunday, April 9 NBC EXPERIMENT IN TELEVISION (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). "The Questions," a stream-of-conscience play by John Hawkes that centers on a woman's choice of coming to grips with reality or facing emotional oblivion. Fritz Weaver and Verna Bloom are featured...