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...march today is the beginning of a new era. We are using old techniques with the expectation of new results. People have got to get that ballot and use it. That's going to be our main thrust this summer. But first we have to get the people out. We wanted to get people to Atlanta on Saturday, but they wouldn't come because of fear. So we're undergoing an educational process. You know, after the voting-rights bill was passed, the only place where people crowded up by the thousands to register was in Alabama...
...some 5,500 G.I.s were withdrawn from operations in Cambodia, 2,000 ARVN (for Army of the Republic of Viet Nam) troops launched Operation Pacify West Two, the tenth thrust to date against Communist base areas. Elsewhere, the new war reached far beyond the sanctuaries. In the Gulf of Siam, U.S. and South Vietnamese patrol craft extended their coastal quarantine to a 70-mile stretch of the Cambodian coastline. At Neak Luong, South Vietnamese Marines and heliborne troops recaptured the vital Mekong River ferry crossing in a battle that left 139 Communists dead. Farther up the Mekong, North Vietnamese...
...this level, Playwright Myrna Lamb casts one ambiguous vote for hanky-panky. On the Brechtian Greek chorus song-and-dance level she casts one unambiguous vote for women's freedom. The chorus delineates the roles into which women have presumably been thrust and demeaned-cook, clerk, wife, mother and sexual plaything...
...What we've been involved with is a particular consciousness. We did talk about and begin working on a picce that would contain direct and immediate information concerning draft resistance. But that is not the main thrust of political activites we see for ourselves nor that we see for the theatre as a whole. There's a place for that knd of theatre but it seems to us extremly limited. However, the kind of things I was describing and the dedication of work informs that work in a certain way. It is something I would rather have...
...Beatles' LP could be all dull, however. Get Back is topnotch. For You Blue is a small gem featuring a moonlit slide guitar that twangs all the way from Nashville to Waikiki. Underlying the basically nostalgic thrust of the album is an authentic piece of oldtime rock 'n' roll, One After 909, which Lennon and McCartney wrote together back...