Word: sidewalkers
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...Rome's Via Veneto, the night was gay with lights and pink azaleas in curbside tubs. At a sidewalk cafe, Ivan Kro-scenko, 31. a man in a black leather jacket, sipped espresso and cased the pedestrian traffic with a predatory eye. A bearded giant strode past: Cinemactor Steve ("Hercules") Reeves. "Mr. Universe," sneered Kroscenko softly. "So who cares?" He was after bigger game. "Linda Christian. Ava Gardner, Anita Ekberg. Jayne Mansfield." he rolled the names lovingly across his tongue. "They are important people. They make trouble." Kroscenko rose, slung the strap of his Rolleicord camera over a shoulder...
...petty harassment gets under way. When the congregation gathers to greet its new leader, the police perfunctorily break up the party; church buildings, the inspector coldly explains, are licensed for religious education, not for social gatherings. When the pastor refuses to sign an official peace petition, hoodlums decorate his sidewalk with a political expletive: WARMONGER! When he visits a farmer who persists in attending church, he finds an official sound truck sitting outside the man's house and blaring patriotic speeches-it has been. day and night, for several weeks...
...would not return professionally to his home city until he could play among Manhattan's top brass-at the Copacabana. Now back for the second time (the first was in June), he showed up for work one evening last week in a two-tone Rolls-Royce, slipped a sidewalk bum an easy fin, and led his wife inside...
After circling the Square, the Socialists found more trouble in front of Phillips Book Store. Nearly 50 students blocked the sidewalk menacingly. When the picketers tried to advance, Alex W. "Pete" Hart '62 quickly stopped them by ripping two signs...
...priest (Murray) of the title is the well-known St. Louis Jesuit, Father Charles Dismas Clark, who for 25 years has lived and served as the friend and confessor of convicts. The story starts like any old half-hour on TV. A baby-faced sidewalk bully (Keir Dullea), who has done two years in state prison for an armed robbery that netted him exactly $19, emerges from the tank still wet behind the ears. The priest awakens a hope in the boy that he can actually make it the hard way. The boy works like a demon, impresses his boss...