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Outside the Capitol, thousands of protesters arrived by bus from major Eastern cities to denounce cuts in the poverty program. "King Richard may as well get ready for a long hot summer," threatened Ralph Abernathy, President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Added Coretta King, widow of Martin Luther King: "My husband's dream of a just society has been deferred, and it is now on the verge of being destroyed...
...Evelyn Grubb, widow of Air Force Colonel Wilmer N. Grubb, sat in a restaurant in Arlington, Va., and said quietly and bitterly: "Now the next phase-The remains have been found and are being shipped home.' " Her husband was one of 55 men Hanoi listed as having died in captivity. In Georgia, the parents of Captain Larron Murphy, missing since 1970, settled down for another siege. "I'm still expecting my son's name to come up," said his mother. "I don't think this is a complete list. I'm not going to give...
...EFFECT OF GAMMA RAYS on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, the film directed by Paul Newman adapted from Paul Zindel's play, takes a typically fifties subject--a middle-aged widow trapped in a ghetto of emotional frustration--and dresses it up in typically fifties sentiment. The movie is a plea for the Blanche du Bois and Amandas of the world, victims of rat-racing commercial America. The American Theater has wallowed under a deluge of such stuff for 20 years; the dialogue sounds like a rerun William Inge or Tennessee Williams, and the movie watches like a Blue Monday...
HARVARD-EPWORTH CHURCH. The Merry Widow Erich von Stoheim. Feb. 1. 7.30. $1. Theresa by George Franju...
...Dismal Seepage, Ohio, and east of Sweet Esther, Wis. As for the young, who may have wondered about cryptic Vic and Sadisms that still crop up in their elders' talk, here at last is a chance to sample the real stuff. Mary Frances Rhymer, the author's widow, has lovingly selected 30 of Paul Rhymer's "as broadcast" scripts from the 3,500 Vic and Sade programs offered between 1932 and the last show...