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Salt & Pepper. At the Memorial, the first order of business was a program of professional entertainment. Folk Singers Joan Baez, Josh White, Odetta, Bob Dylan, Peter-Paul-and-Mary rendered hymns and civil rights songs. Actor Marlon Brando brandished an electric cattle prod of the sort sometimes used by cops against civil rights demonstrations. Author James Baldwin, Actors Paul Newman, Burt Lancaster, Charlton Heston made appearances. And onetime Folies-Bergère Star Josephine Baker looked out at the biracial crowd and snapped satisfiedly: "Salt and pepper-just what it should...
Bloodthirsty Marauders. But it is also possible that, after a decade of the half-forgotten Korean armistice, marked only by minor skirmishes and routine infiltration attempts, the Chinese-dominated North Koreans now want to prod and poke the U.S. For days, the North Korean radio has been ranting that the "U.S. imperialist troops'-must be driven from South Korea. Al week's end a sizable group of Communist soldiers boldly penetrated 500 yards into the U.S. sector and waged a two-hour skirmish with U.S. patrols...
...properly enforced, the directive can create two positive influences. It will provide a sharp economic prod to "voluntary action" on the part of Southern businessmen, and at the same time have an educational effect of the men serving in the armed forces, many of whom probably have not thought seriously about the civil rights problem...
...Bailey's son-in-law got $7,750. Bailey's son and daughter did pretty well too. When asked how much they had collected in dividends on their Kelly stock. Bailey had refused to give any figures, said the amount was "surprisingly small." Last week, under the prod of publicity, the Kelly agency revealed that over four years the son and daughter between them have received $20.000 in dividends on their father's $5,000 investment...
...which recounts the triangular love trials of three well-heeled squares in Manhattan. Apparently, Gold is trying to say that up-and-coming Americans, tormented by a sense of futility and lack of purpose, try to make love make up for everything else. In the process, they poke and prod and worry it almost to death. So, alas, does Gold...