Word: sidewalkers
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Passen stationed himself in front of White House this afternoon, with other student peace from around the country, who began sidewalk sit-in at noon. The students they would stay the night and try sit-in inside the White House Monday...
...More than 150 embassy staff people were at work inside the five-story building. Ambassador Maxwell Taylor was in Washington for talks with President Johnson; left in charge was Deputy Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson. Out side the embassy, a sentry unit of six Saigon policemen ambled conversationally along the sidewalk...
...futile tacks toward identity. They are contemporary fairy tales, dreams embedded in urban concrete and spun from the thoughts of people who could not conceivably exist. But beneath the deceptive surface lurks the insistent point that reality and surreality are separated by no more than a crack in the sidewalk. Ishmael Ramos, for instance, is a young Puerto Rican who works in the boiler room at the Columbia University gym and for whom reality is wearing an undergraduate's outfit and rooting for Columbia's football team. He does not understand the game; it is enough that...
...jostling, impromptu sidewalk press conference afterward, Simon tried to clear the air. "I didn't want the publicity," he explained, saying that he had bid in the name of the Norton Simon Foundation. "I had discussed the ar rangement for bidding with Chance this morning, and we had signed an agreement," he insisted. He plans to hang the painting first in the soon-to-open Los Angeles County Museum, then offer it for viewing to other U.S. museums. But first Titus will have to tarry a bit; according to British law, a major art work must remain for three...
...scene on the sidewalk was a pure Billy Rose spectacle. While cops hovered before the curved Georgian facade of his Manhattan town house, showmanship's shortest (5 ft. 3 in.) giant lounged in the cavity of Henry Moore's Reclining Figure, surrounded by Reg Butler's Woman Stretching, Maillol's Chained Liberty, Rodin's nude Adam and Archipenko's cubistic Woman Combing Hair. While Billy watched, twelve white-coated movers lifted the sculpture into vans. In all, there were 105 pieces conservatively worth $1,000,000, and they were off on their final journey...