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...James Chancy and Michael Schwerner were brutally murdered," he began. Turning halfway toward Price, he said: "And I believe in my heart that the murderers are some where around me at this moment." "They're right behind you," chuckled a white onlooker, to roars of delight from fellow townsmen. Said King, "I'm not afraid of any man. Before I will be a slave, I will be dead in my grave." Shouted a chorus of whites: "We'll help...
...repeal of a 1920 law forbidding the use of contraceptives by women-a pitch designed to cut into De Gaulle's massive popularity with French females. Wherever he went, Mitterrand's crowds were larger than expected, and he tailored his approach to his audience. Small townsmen he lectured in the style of a petit bourgeois professor. Grease-smeared workers in a Renault plant he harangued with: "They must not ask us to bow our heads when they beat us! The workers will march where they wish, and why not to the Arc de Triomphe...
...expects the first to be finished next week. Meantime, Japanese Self-Defense Force planes carrying dry ice and water have pounced on every passing cloud, and on the shores of the Ogochi reservoir, a Shinto priest in the mask of a scarlet lion writhed through a ceremonial rain dance. Townsmen were warned not to expect miracles. "It will take two days for the message to get through to the dragon god," the priest explained...
...first the townsmen spurn the offer and stand behind their popular fellow-townsman, Ill. By the end of play they will accept it. Ill himself is terrified at the beginning that he will eventually be killed for the money. He forgets his fear, however, and calmly awaits the death he is cynically certain will come...
Andreas Teuber, rapidly becoming one of the grand old men of Harvard undergraduate theatre, has turned in another superb performance as the town's old schoolmaster. Teuber plays a crucial part, for the old schoolmaster is the only one of the townsmen other than Alfred Ill himself who realizes the power of the temptation they face. Seduced by the money, he is conscious of what is happening to the townspeople...