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...failing to pay tax on" less than half an ounce of marihuana. The Bureau will welcome a test case because it believes the drug to be an unequivocal menace and resents propaganda to the contrary. Leary will be happy to have at last a national forum in order to preach to all his Less-Harmful-Than-Alcohol doctrine about the very same stuff...
Died. Paula Strasberg, 55, wife of Actors Studio Head Lee Strasberg and mother of Actress Susan, who helped her husband preach the gospel of Method acting, served as dramatic coach to Marilyn Monroe; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...theologian. Nonetheless, he has what President Arthur McKay of Chicago's McCormick Theological Seminary calls "an instinctive theological savvy about the issues that are facing the church." Out of conviction that Christianity has a duty to speak out on social issues, Blake has done more than merely preach about Negro rights; in 1963 he was arrested for attempting to integrate an amusement park in Maryland. Within his own church, he 'has forcefully backed the "Confession of 1967"-a proposed restatement of the church's faith that may be approved by next year's general assembly...
...yearnings of anyone who has ever suffered through the pretentious piety of multimillion-dollar orgies of Scripturama. Paradoxically, it is the work of a usually irreverent Italian Communist, Director Pier Paolo Pasolini, who casts a solemn, hot-eyed Spanish student (Enrique Irazoqui) as Jesus and sends him out to preach among the peasantry with a social revolutionist's fervor. Yet Pasolini at his best has created something more noble and touching than a Marxist Messiah, and more authentic than the customary sun-kissed Hollywood Christ. The film's dialogue, for example, comes intact from the Book of Matthew...
...Akasaka District. Run by a Korean "cabaret king" named Yoshiaki Konami, 54, the Mikado boasts an electric eye to open the door, a "dancing" West German water fountain, 1,250 hostesses in evening dress or kimono, and 30 Japanese Rockettes who bump and grind through Papa Don't Preach to Me in top hat and tails. Bare-breasted "Arabian" beauties alternate onstage with lion-maned Kabuki dancers. There is an exclusive downstairs party suite with 120 of Tokyo's most luscious hostesses, as well as a 16-page leatherbound wine list in which choices range from...