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Harshaw soon received congratulatory letters from small-town mayors in Texas and Tennessee. In the Kansas City, Kans., suburb of Westwood (pop. 2,300), Mayor Joe Dennis bounced back a check for $37,000 Westwood, he said, did not need the money. Then Mayor Jack Cauble of Coahoma, Texas (pop. 1,200) rejected, with city council approval, a check for $1,889. His action was rooted in prairie suspicion. "I would have sent it back even if it were $18,000," he insisted. "When I was a kid my mother used to send me out for a switch and then...
...LIKE small-town America itself, the independent local bank has been fading away in many parts of the country, overcome by progress and competition from rich, efficient multibranch banking firms that are headquartered in big cities. In recent years, despite some Government constraints on bank expansions, the spread of large institutions to the suburbs and small towns has substantially quickened, investing major banks with ever more financial clout and raising howls from small bankers. As a result, the old arguments over how banking can best serve the economy and the public have burst into a controversy that will soon reach...
...film's poor direction will limit its exposure is much as its volatile content. Winter Soldier lacks both imagination and precision functioning at the same level of artistry as a small-town newscast. It was produced by a film collective proud to work without a director, but unfortunately no one made the essential decisions about thematic development and continuity. The interviews reach no conclusions, and convey the mood of "Meet the Press" rather than an important political meeting. Only one veteran breaks the monotony of disconnected testimony by showing the relationship between his Vietnam experiences and his current life...
...House Without A Christmas Tree. Sentimental story of a small-town Nebraska Christmas in 1946 kicks off the Christmas Special season. Emmy-winner Paul Bogart ("Look Homeward, Angel") directs Jason Robards, Lisa Lucas, and Mildred Netwick, CH. 7. Color...
...after graduation to a job as an understudy off-Broadway, and that led absolutely nowhere. For a year, Vereen worked in the mail room of a motion-picture company, vainly hoping that somebody would notice his loud on-the-job singing, then he landed a spot in a small-town Pennsylvania production of West Side Story. There he found his first and, so far, only experience of discrimination in the theater. "I wanted to play Riff," he complains, "but they said I couldn't play the part because I wasn't Polish...