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...Both Washington and Harris were given jobs to keep whites and blacks in line at their enlisted men's clubs. When Harris suggested commemorating the anniversary of King's death, the Marine command supplied food and soft drinks for 300 black soldiers and Marines. The demonstration turned into a picnic and passed without incident. Heggs, on his own time and theirs, taught black history to black and white airmen, soldiers and sailors in the Danang area. At Tan My and Bien Hoa, black sailors and airmen meet regularly to plan black culture events and discuss their mutual problems...
...truth emerging here is not that the masses will necessarily succeed in overwhelming wealthy men and nations, but that those men and nations in order to continue their picnic [ sic ] will necessarily subjugate completely or else totally destroy the unmanageable majority of those masses; literally, they will alter the world's reality which is wont, by destroying those who want even a small portion of what the wealthy have...
...member said that the Radical Arts Troupe would also perform at registration and at the picnic. "We also hope to have several people-men and women-at the mixer to discuss the issues of chauvinism and women's liberation," he said...
...wedding feast and later presents him with a cigarette lighter. But their tranquil country life is disrupted by a taste of urban terror: a girl's body is found horribly mutilated. Soon another grisly murder is committed; this time Helene discovers the body while on a picnic with her students. Next to the body is a lighter that appears to be Popaul's. Helene finds herself I caught in a maelstrom of dark violence...
...Washingtonians intent on a sunny weekend at Chesapeake Bay or the ocean beyond, the clogged approaches to Maryland's Chesapeake Bay Bridge regularly add two or three hours to the Saturday morning journey. When traffic halts, motorists unlimber lunch baskets, folding chairs and martini shakers, and the picnic begins. Kids flip Frisbees while their elders chat. Those dreaded approaches may be the world's longest, narrowest picnic grounds...