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...Robert O. Hayes Foundation is only one of hundreds of small, not-for-profit foundations and trusts that have sprung up under the umbrella of an Illinois outfit known as Americans Building Constitutionally (ABC). The organization was started 18 months ago by an itinerant financial adviser, James Walsh, and Robert D. Hayes, former owner of a private business-administration school (and also, by no coincidence, Robert O. Hayes's father). The two were drawn together by the idea of bringing foundations to the average well-off citizen. If such big shots as the Kennedys and the Johnsons could...
PANTAGLEIZE. The APA Repertory Company mounts a stylistically rich production of the Belgian playwright Michel de Ghelderode's grotesque historical farce. From the cornucopia of his imagination comes spilling forth Pantagleize (Ellis Rabb), a Chaplinesque figure who, equipped with only an umbrella, a silly expression and an innocent greeting, manages to start a revolution...
...gentle as I can," he said. "I am prepared to be your guest, but I will not engage in a shouting match with anyone." The measured seriousness of the statement sobered the crowd, and later when a little old lady in the audience smote a bearded heckler with her umbrella, a chant went up: "Harder, harder, hit him again harder...
...split between antiwar and anti-American factions nearly put last week's Pentagon march out of step before it began. The New York-based National Mobilization Committee to End the War in Viet Nam (alias the Mob), the umbrella group that coordinated the march, found it hard to reconcile plans for civil disobedience with more moderate notions of a legal rally...
...followers brought fresh changes of robes and food, tea, milk, vitamins, dextrose mixed with water and aspirin. The palace guards permitted Tri Quang to use their gate toilet, and when the monsoon came, South Vietnamese Police Chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan came out and invited Tri Quang inside, holding an umbrella...