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...speaker finished, the demonstrators chanted, "We want Abbie;". and Hoffman rose to speak. Pointing to the Hancock Building across the Common, he said, "Fuckin' John Hancock was a revolutionary. He wasn't no goddamn insurance salesman...
...flag. Uncle Sam wears a flag outfit, and so did Roy Rogers and Dale Evans on a recent television show. Indeed, on the very Griffin show on which Abbie Hoffman's shirt was censored, CBS's New York affiliate transmitted an auto commercial showing a salesman hawking his wares in a starred-and-striped Uncle Sam suit...
Stopping over in Bangkok, Dramatist Arthur Miller speculated that if Willy Loman, the frustrated hero of Miller's tragic Death of a Salesman, were around today, he would be a member of the Silent Majority...
...Shopkeepers. William Willis and Earl Dural, both 39, typify the many Negroes for whom the dream of starting their own business has soured. They had talked of opening a clothing store when they were university students and kept discussing it while Willis worked as a beer salesman and Dural as a mailman. Last year they took an eight-week course in retailing run by New Orleans department stores, pooled $3,000 of savings with a $20,000 loan from the Small Business Administration and set up shop on Dryades Street, the main drag of the New Orleans ghetto. Blacks...
...brightest was painted last week by British Actor Nicol Williamson, who was invited to perform for 270 people at the third of the Nixons' "Evening at the White House" series. Williamson enthralled his audience with soliloquies and songs from Shakespeare, passages from Death of a Salesman and Inadmissible Evidence, and snatches of Robert Benchley, E.E. Cummings and William Butler Yeats. Then he led the dancing-music courtesy of The World's Greatest Jazz Band-in the State Dining Room. At one point the multitalented Williamson grabbed a trumpet and played a few bars; later on grabbed some...