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THERE'S A RUMBLE "We say no, We say no. We say no to the racists..." shivers across the Fenway in the gray drizzle quivers a pale, unshaven man. He's baby-blue double-knit dressed chic and he's bitching at a hulking, red lumber jacketed Militant vendor who's tucked his Militant under his arm in a white, plastic garbage bag Disposable...
...organization had a phenomenal growth after Ikeda, the son of a Tokyo seaweed vendor, became its leader in 1960. Since then, membership has grown from 1.3 million to 10 million, and converts have been made in more than 30 different countries. To propagate its teachings, Soka Gakkai publishes a daily newspaper, Seikyo Shimbun (circ. 4.5 million), operates its own university, Soka Digaku, near Tokyo, and has built a temple as big as the Houston Astrodome at the foot of Mount Fuji...
...with a rightist government and a conservative Roman Catholic hierarchy, Portugal before the April revolution was one of the least libidinous countries in Europe. Striptease shows, topless dancers, dirty books and X-rated movies were, legally, at least, not allowed into the country. At the most, an occasional street vendor would risk arrest by the morals squad and peddle a few bootlegged copies of Playboy or some other forbidden girlie import. The morals squad still exists, but since the April revolution, the risk has gone out of eroticism. In fact, one of the curious consequences of the coup that ousted...
...Southern Route is the flagship production of a promising new group called the Cambridge Ensemble. It's about a group of six people, ranging from an ethereal pre-Raphaelite beauty to a anti-social street vendor. Aside from some basic cliches--it's all supposed to take place in the midst of the traffic jam of life--it's done very well. Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 9 p.m. at the Harvard Street Playhouse...
...didn't take long for Nilon to greet the vendors next morning with more deals of going back to work and negotiating later. The union rep arrived with a high card from the mythical local's down town office, but he didn't play his hand until after Nilon spoke. Nilon immediately began threatening everyone with pink slips and court injunctions. Then the union rep took over and introduced his friend from downtown, who startlingly declared that he was against the strike, and it was the vendor's tough luck if Nilon fired people. Of course, he insisted...