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Through Woods & Marshes. The civil rights leaders planning the march summoned all the skills of a regimental G-4 to get the affair organized and equipped. They assembled mountains of bedrolls and air mattresses, got hold of two huge circus tents and scores of pup tents for four overnight stops, arranged to have hot meals trucked out, lined up 32 portable latrines, a convoy of garbage trucks and a fleet of ambulances...
Obviously, the strife in Selma and other trouble spots would not be settled overnight. But President Johnson's strong yet measured words made it perfectly plain that the day was not far off when all American citizens would be equal in the polling place...
What's Noble? Journey into the Night is particularly hallucinatory. Two men are taking an overnight train to Paris. One tells the other in a friendly way that he is a cannibal and intends to eat his companion as soon as he falls asleep. Ridiculous, naturally. No, really, the first man is quite serious. He opens a small satchel and brings out a salt shaker and tools for dismembering a body...
...might sound essentially frivolous, but the meeting and greeting, wining and dining, guiding and abiding of foreign chiefs of state and their ambassadors is a matter where a clumsy introduction or miscalculated place card can chill relations overnight. Accordingly, the post has traditionally gone to seasoned diplomats, and veteran socialites, such as Wiley Buchanan under Eisenhower, and "Angie" Duke, who is about to take over the U.S. embassy in Madrid...
...rard Philipe and Robert Hirsch. Then, on Philipe's advice, she took a role in a boulevard production of The Dazzling Hour. On her second night, the show's star fell ill and Jeanne was asked to play her role. Jeanne learned the new part overnight, and the next evening, since the two characters were never onstage at the same moment, she appeared in both roles, alternating between "an honest woman who feels like a street walker and a streetwalker who feels like an honest woman." It was a tour de force, and Paris discovered...