Word: attendants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fertile Ground. At week's end Barry strayed far from Dixie to attend the 22nd annual National Plowing Contest on a farm 32 miles from Fargo, N.Dak. With 50,000 farmers and their families on hand, the contest was fertile ground for a presidential contender, and Barry promptly sought to plow it. "You know," he told his huge audience, "the nation would be a lot better off if our interim President would quit trying to run your farms and instead clean out his own stables...
Mustard in the Monastery. This month, in Moscow on an inspection visit and accredited as usual as a diplomatic "third secretary," Schwirkmann with four embassy friends decided to attend Sunday services at Zagorsk, the medieval Russian Orthodox monastery 42 miles from the capital. During the service Schwirkmann felt a blow on his left thigh, thought he had merely brushed against someone in the temple gloom, but then discovered a soaked spot on his left trouser leg. Afterward a bearded "guide," who introduced himself as an Orthodox seminarian, offered insistently to escort the party on a thorough tour of Zagorsk...
...seems a miracle that these students who attend the nation's poorest school system, are so eager to learn, and so ready to pass their lessons on to others. Many join in or take over the work of the project (such as running the Freedom School or canvassing for the MFDP) and are soon "freedom workers" themselves...
Monday night the Freedom delegates attend the convention session as guests. They behave like normal delegates--becoming bored and leaving early. A single Freedom delegate reaches the floor and spends the evening in the empty Mississippi seats. "No one," he explains, "even noticed...
...hugged each other with delight. Allaire du Pont dashed around the winner's circle, kissing everybody in reach. And what was Kelso doing? Trotting calmly off to the barn to catch up on his sleep. After all, there was still some unfinished business to attend to-a small matter of $38,737. With $1,711,132 already in the bank (including his day's pay of $70,005), that was all that stood between the sturdy old champion and the biggest victory of all: passing Round Table to become the No. 1 money winner in thoroughbred racing history...