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...longest work, Maidstone. With the intention of recording events truly appropriate to the nature of the medium rather than to the conventions of pre-film literature (the essay tells us,) Mr. Mailer invited a large group of friends, actors, actor-friends, and non-actor non-friends for a week-long party in Easthampton. There, with the use of four estates and the help of three cambers crews, the sol-disant Prisoner of Movies made a film in which "the country has become so absolutely disheveled that a movie director is running for president-and he's also making a paragraphic...
...week-long registration dirve recently completed in Rhode Island under the sponsorship of The Student Vote resulted in a 25 per cent increase in the number of 18- to 21-year-old voters there at a cost to that organization of only 11 cents per registrant. The Democratic National Committee had previously cited $2 per voter as the minimum figure possible...
...week-long pre-Christmas training camp, the ski team voted sophomores Ben Steele (alpine) and Ken Willis (nordic) this year's team captains...
...farm states are up for grabs, and McGovern has begun hammering away at low corn prices and high interest rates for farmers. Recently he interrupted a week-long tour through the Midwest to jet back to Washington to vote against Nixon's nominee for Secretary of Agriculture, Earl Butz, who has little support among farmers. But whether he can count on any substantial backing from either group remains to be seen. He has also made some new allies among blacks after campaigning actively among them. On a four-day swing through California last week, he picked up commitments from...
Some of the underlying philosophical differences which had simmered through most of the week-long gathering were about to be translated into intolerant invective. For five days now, the 450 conference participants brought together in Ann Arbor, Michigan, had sought comprehensive strategies to make their religion a part of the solution to social and political injustices, both national and international. From the beginning of the conference, the diversity had been manifest with differing philosophies, analyses and strategies. The differences had grown with the organization, which was started six years before to protest the escalation in Vietnam. The leadership--concerned that...