Word: 16th
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...athletes from 64 nations gather in Albertville, France, next week for the 16th Winter Olympics, TIME's staff will begin a transatlantic, marathon effort to cover the Games. This week's special 15-page preview, coordinated by Jose M. Ferrer III, assistant managing editor of TIME's International editions, will be the first of four special sections on the competition. "There's a magical quality to the Winter Games, a sense that they retain the original Olympic ideal," says Ferrer. "Our job will be to portray the human stories behind the global Games...
From First to Last: Lute Music from the 16th and 20th Centuries--Olav C. Henriksen will perform the works of Spinacino, Schlick, Attaingnant, Johnson and da Milano and 20th century works by J.N. David and Stephen Funk(y) Pearson. Boston Conservatory Concert Room, 8 The Fenway, Boston. Thursday, Feb. 6, 8 p.m. Free...
...week another dramatic scene took place on Birmingham's streets, but its impact on the nation's troubled race relations is far from clear. With a chain draped symbolically over his shoulders and his wrists bound by steel handcuffs, Mayor Richard Arrington marched with hundreds of supporters from the 16th Street Baptist Church, where four girls were killed by a racially inspired bombing in 1963. Their destination: the federal courthouse three blocks away, where Arrington surrendered and was taken to the minimum-security prison camp at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery to begin serving a prison term for contempt...
...more visible results of the controversy is that it rekindled the passions that had been damped for decades. At the 16th Street Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Jr. organized demonstrations during the 1960s, throngs of demonstrators waving placards that read RACISM WILL NOT PREVAIL, WE SHALL OVERCOME and RACISM IS CORRUPTION were led in old movement anthems by grizzled civil rights veterans like Woods and the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth. They hoped they were writing a new chapter in an old book. "We put it together once," roared Shuttlesworth to stamping applause, "and we can put it together again." Blacks...
...Master Singers--present "Songs of the Shepherds: A 16th and 17th Century Christmas." In the First Parish Church in Lexington, on the Battle Green at 7 Harrington Rd. Friday and Saturday, Dec. 13 and 14, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $12, $10 for students and elders. For information call...