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...airports by unsympathetic authorities. In Algiers they canceled his announced press conference with Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver. Leary and three traveling companions next surfaced in Beirut. They were supposed to "study the methods of the Palestinian revolutionaries," but neither Jordan nor Syria would have them. Cairo let them stay overnight at an airport hotel and take a quick squint at the Pyramids before packing them back to Algiers. Where next? He wanted to talk to the North Koreans, Leary told reporters. Later he announced that he would enter the U.S. in disguise to attend a Panther rally in New Haven...
...comedian, black or white. Not so long ago, Flip was scratching something like $15 a night out of low-rent nightclubs along the Eastern seaboard. Then he made a one-night stand on Johnny Carson's Tonight Show. The stocky, moon-faced comic became-quite literally-a star overnight. Now his own NBC-TV variety hour, The Flip Wilson Show, is the most successful new hour in an otherwise dismal fall season...
...Almost overnight, the world of Armand Portnoy, mild-mannered owner of a Parisian garage, was transformed. There were anonymous telephone calls, bad jokes from close friends and insinuating remarks from mere acquaintances. It was poor Portnoy's most harrowing experience since the day in World War II when he sought shelter from a German air raid by ducking under a loaded gasoline truck...
...expended extraordinary energies and time in the bread-and-butter arrangements of travel, menus, audiences, and overnight accommodations due our semi-official guests-all without secretarial help-thus somewhat dulling hours in which we theoretically were to occupy ourselves in thinking great thoughts or uplifting journalism if not our immortal souls. My contribution to these frowned-upon seminars was to provide two men large in contemporary American letters, both of whom happened to be my special old literary heroes. Let us here consider the hazards of such an exercise in modern-day Cambridge, digressing to include arbitrary judgments on Norman...
...Riverside group began its campaign against Harvard officials last June, when they staged an overnight "tent-in" in the Yard and seized the speakers' platform at the following day's Commencement ceremonies...