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...Manhattan, a self-styled "Catholic pacifist" burned his draft card. Though willful destruction of a draft card is punishable by a five-year jail term under a recently enacted federal law, the student declared: "Christ would not have carried this card. Neither will I." One spectator shouted at the unkempt crowd: "Get inside. It's going to rain. You'll get clean...
...Revolution!" As the mob chanted "Fi-del! Fi-del!" beads of sweat matted Castro's unkempt beard in the broiling afternoon sun. For a Castro speech, it was mercifully short: three hours. Inevitably, he mocked the OAS, upbraided the U.S. Neither the U.S. nor the OAS, Castro boomed, could stop his chief export: Communism. "We call ourselves fighters for Communism! We want revolution; we want the liberation of the peoples of Latin America...
...Rockers, those peculiar breeds of British youth, made their seasonal migration to Brighton and points south, and fought a few Easter skirmishes. Other adolescents, together with older Ban-the-Bombers, set out on the annual march from Aldermaston to London's Trafalgar Square, where their beards and unkempt heads of hair frightened the pigeons. In the Cotswolds, hunting horns sounded over green hills as the fox fled before hounds and huntsmen. And in London, which now rivals Las Vegas as the gambling capital of the world, players were five deep at the dice and roulette tables...
...creaky ante bellum mansion where Charlotte has lived in unkempt seclusion for decades has to be torn down to make way for a bridge. "Dollin' Cousin" Miriam (Olivia de Havilland) arrives to help Dr. Drew (Joseph Gotten) handle the crisis and learns firsthand that the good old days are far from over. That night, in Miriam's closet, a dress is slashed to ribbons. Soon a head rolls out of a box, a hand starts picking out tunes in the music room, and heaven only knows where a body will turn...
...PUMPKIN EATER. Three husbands, a swarm of progeny and a nervous collapse leave a well-kept wife with an unkempt psyche in this marriage-go-round...