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...talking to all of you who smoke," thundered the Rev. Clayton Brooks, addressing the townsfolk of Eagle Rock, gathered on the courthouse lawn. "You have the opportunity to fail an Almighty call, and you also have the opportunity to fail your own person, your own life, your own body, your own family, your own self. I ask you once more, those of you who smoke, to get up here and sign that pledge to stop now!" Perspiring, Reverend Brooks stepped down from his green gazebo pulpit. Somebody held out a lighted cigarette; he accepted it gratefully and took a long...
...most conspicuous backslider is Actor Van Dyke, a chain smoker who joined the townsfolk in signing the pledge and says: "I really made an honest effort, but I was climbing the walls. It was terrible, terrible," Others include Bill Marshall, a Greenfield insurance agent who resisted temptation for only one day. That night, he was awakened by a telephone call from a farmer whose barn had just been blown down in a fierce storm. Marshall reached for a cigarette-and kept on reaching, Jim McCutchan, manager of Greenfield's I.G.A. grocery store, was hooked again after three days...
...chapter. Racial riots? The 30,000 Negroes who live in Las Vegas' west-side black ghetto have not yet even discovered the sit-in. Hippies and drugs? Rare in Vegas. MARIJUANA-THE SOCIAL ASSASSIN, read the billboards that District Attorney George Franklin has erected along the main drag. Townsfolk are still chuckling about what happened to the two hirsute, peace-bead types whom a deputy sheriff discovered on The Strip a month or so ago. He drove them out into the desert, pointed them toward Barstow, Calif. (153 miles away), and ordered them to start walking...
...rapid montage of sentiment in How Green Was My Valley threatens society's solidity each moment that these sentiments create society. In one scene a Morgan boy leads other townsfolk in song. Singing scenes, like fight and dance scenes, in Ford show group activity in which each person's behavior is laid down by tradition. A fight scene in The Searchers (1956), for example, gives participants and spectators secure roles. The tension generated when one man picks up a stick of wood turns into warmth and humor when he sets it as a boundary marker. No such security comes from...
...Mother's Day "Zap-Out." Sure enough, late last week columns of collegians began rolling down Zap's unpaved main thoroughfare, their cars emblazoned with signs readiag ZAP OR BUST. Mayor Norman Fuchs, sporting a ZAP N.D. OR BUST! sweat shirt, and some of the townsfolk turned out to offer a friendly greeting. All seemed to believe the college newspaper's plan of turning Zap-with its two bars and one café-into "the Fort Lauderdale of the North...