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...move possible. New glues and dryers developed by the industry have overcome Southern pine's high moisture and pitch content, which made its wood difficult to stick together. Automated loaders and lathes can now handle pine logs, which are much smaller than fir, and peel off layers of veneer...
Arts & Causes. It is hard to fault a program that provides so much interest and, for many younger people, education. The program deserves praise just because it exists. With that understood, it must be reported that the producers have unfortunately glossed their good material with a veneer of embarrassingly bad taste. The first and worst offense is the voice of Charlton Heston, who speaks for the President. Roosevelt's own recorded voice will be used wherever possible, but in the interim Heston's St. Grotlesex mimicry is offensive, especially when heard beside the true voice of Mrs. Roosevelt...
...beneath the veneer lurks the same old gang of Kluxers that rode the moon-dark nights across the Mississippi Delta during Reconstruction. They still instill terror and engage in violence. That fact was demonstrated one night last week by the eerie glow of Klan crosses burning in a score of Mississippi communities. In Louisiana, TV Newsman Robert Wagner was seized by armed Klansmen as he tried to cover their secret meeting in a barn not far from Baton Rouge. He was forced to remove his trousers, lie in a poison ivy patch, where he was beaten with a belt before...
...discover a galaxy of neurotic horrors: curious inversions of appearances, petrified wills, secret dreads, loneliness, and despair. These interior stresses are just as commonplace as the banalities that overlay them, even though they are revealed in bizarre ways. The pettiness and self-deception begin to seem less an insipid veneer than a shield for sanity...
...that was only a veneer. Last week Atlanta churned with scenes as ugly as those in any other race-torn city: Negroes rolled in the streets in front of paddy wagons, cops wrestled demonstrators off to jail, and whites and Negroes cursed and battered each other with their fists...