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...street, a burly, bearded man clad in a tuxedo jacket, narrow pink tie and baggy army fatigues finishes the Motown milestone "My Girl." An elderly gentleman steps forward and drops a bill into the open guitar case. "We should all learn from this man tonight," bellows the musician, mocking the voice of Sunday morning TV-gospel preachers. The crowd laughs, and some swell toward the case appreciatively. The guitarist asks those at the back to move up to the curb to avoid blocking traffic, then gets all singing and many dancing to his one-man version of the Beatles' "Twist...
...world is in good shape," he says, "because everybody is crying inside. The only reason I know that is because I cry inside. I'm no different emotionally from anyone else." Indoors and hopefully on tape, Meyreles plans to continue with upbeat music and antics. But his experimentation with one-man "music/theater" in "Comparable Jones"--an original, which deals with the personal battle against addictions of all kinds--signifies an attempt to wrestle with suffering in a more direct, less frivolous way. "One of the things I'd like to do with this new theater is slap people. Slap them...
Praising the current system of racial segregation in South Africa, apartheid, as favorable to Blacks and whites, a noted European journalist last night said one-man, one-vote rule cannot presently succeed, because of many conflicting tribal and European factions...
DIED. Harry Golden, 79, humorist-cum-moralist who used the pages of his one-man newspaper, the Carolina Israelite, to celebrate the vagaries of life and attack racial discrimination, collecting his writings in the bestsellers Only in America (1958), For 2? Plain (1959) and Enjoy, Enjoy! (1960); of a heart attack; in Charlotte, N.C. A Jewish immigrant's son who was reared on Manhattan's Lower East Side, the portly, cigar-chomping Golden gravitated to the South and in 1941 founded the Israelite, which in its 26 years of publication numbered Harry Truman, Earl Warren, Adlai Stevenson...
...share these worries. But we do not endorse the solution recommended by the AAA, BSA and GSA. Our reasoning follows that of many civil rights activists, whose motto for much of the last century was drawn from the language of a Supreme Court case: "one-man, one-vote." We object to tampering with electoral democracy in order to aid one group or interest; we object to such tampering be it by whites in the Southern United States or New York City, or by minorities in something so insignificant as student government. When district lines were redrawn in the Mississippi Delta...