Word: wichitas
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...metaphors (Harley: "I used to be a real cedar-breaker, but now I'm just bringing up the dregs"). But the film's sole purpose is to give Stewart and Fonda a chance to weave their well-tuned wiles. The result could win the heart of a Wichita banker...
...mean we're supposed to applaud?" asks the lady from Wichita, Kans. "Why, I never heard of such a thing." The general audience is indeed something to stretch Anglo-Saxon and North European credulity. It is a religious occasion presided over by the spiritual leader of 600 million Catholics; yet at times it resembles nothing so much as Shea Stadium on banner night, with overtones of the Christmas show at Radio City Music Hall, the National Spelling Bee and the state fair...
...their President; the office makes him a kind of national paterfamilias endowed with special authority and wisdom. In any crisis, the instinct is to feel that the President knows best. When Richard Nixon undertook to send U.S. forces into Cambodia, one could hear the same response from Woonsocket to Wichita: He knows more than we do, he must be right. But does a President really have a great deal of special intelligence that is not available to the well-informed, concerned citizen? Sometimes yes, but often the extra facts a President knows are only marginally important...
Lawrence was not the only Kansas community to bleed in the new outbreak of violence. Bombings rocked Topeka and Wichita and terrorized the Kansas City area. The ordeal began early this month when a bomb was thrown into the home of Real-Estate Man Miller Nichols, causing damage but no injuries, and continued as bombs damaged a high school, a church and the police academy in Kansas City, Mo. Last week officials in both Kansas City, Kans., and Kansas City, Mo., worked together to keep order in the two cities. They activated the Metro Squad, which includes 40 law-enforcement...
They put up a brave front, but the city's white leaders now admit that they have lost communication with Wichita blacks. Says Mayor Enoch: "I used to have good contacts with-how shall I say it without giving offense?-the more stable element there. Now it's far more difficult. It's a disastrous thing." These days Wichita blacks have trouble communicating with each other. A. Price Woodard. the incoming black mayor, insists: "I have faith in the white community. We are too prone to complain." But other blacks see Woodard as more of a white...