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...find them, on museum steps, in parks and markets, along waterfronts and under arcades. The groups have antic names like the Tarmac Trio, Three-Part Invention and Dynamic Logs. Mimes, jugglers and fire-eaters often join in the act. Not far behind them come the hot-dog vendors and balloon men. The minstrels provide the nation's most colorful, if casual, summer musical diversions...
Like a Lead Balloon...
...mist was still rising from the damp field near Frederick, Colo. Not the most popular hour for a wedding, but certainly the most congenial time for ballooning in the early morning breezes. After solemnly repeating their vows, Diane Baumbach, 39, a secretary, and Jerry Weiman, 33, an amusement park employee, clambered into the bridal balloon, which was decked with a rope of carnations, satin bows and dangling tin cans. Touching down an hour later, the newlyweds celebrated with champagne while onlookers recited the balloon prayer, beginning: "The winds have welcomed you with softness...
...five months earlier had undergone massive brain surgery. The years and fears showed mainly in the fit of his bib: Fiedler ill had lost so much weight that Wife Ellen insisted on smaller tails from Brooks Brothers. Otherwise, things Pops-wise were the same, including a familiar hand-clapping, balloon-rising Stars and Stripes Forever finale...
There'll be pinatas and puppeteers, murals and magicians, balloons and bluegrass, choreographed searchlights, Chinese dragon boat races, and even a medievel jousting tournament. The third annual Cambridge River Festival kicks off Sunday at 12:30 p.m. on Cambridge Common when Rufus Harley, the world's only jazz bagpiper, leads a procession to the Charles River for its official dedication on the National Register of Historic Places. A seven-story hot-air balloon will be inflated, and 300 homing pigeons will be released...