Word: band
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While a formation of three old Stearman biplanes droned over San Mateo, Calif., the Hamilton Air Force Base band burst into Anchors Aweigh. The flyers of the U.S. Air Force -and Navy, along with half a dozen civilian aviation groups decided it was high time to pay tribute to Snoopy, pilot par excellence and fearless scourge of the Red Baron. As the peerless pup's creator, Cartoonist Charles Schulz, stood at attention, they gave him a pair of gold wings and a picture of Snoopy in fighter-pilot gear. It was too bad that Snoopy could not be there...
...work together beautifully, all springing from the same great tradition of Delta blues. And when Johnny Shines went into his "tribute to a friend, the late Robert Johnson," playing "standing' at the Crossroads" with his mellow slide guitar, and a slight tremble in his voice, the rest of the band came right together. And that was the blues--no longer a legend; very much alive...
Still, the connoisseur can find a few true American eccentrics-people who consistently follow their own' seemingly exotic standards. Eugene McCarthy, who now disappoints many of his former disciples, marches to his own one-man band. So, for that matter, does Harold Stassen. While Timothy Leary preaches drug salvation, Vince Lombardi has mystical visions of football and Howard Hughes eludes the world behind moats of money...
...plays tackle on the football team. "I mean you go have a smoke with some jock, or you date a black girl, or sit-in with a guy who was president of his class at St. Paul's, or get zonked with some guy in a band. So what? Everyone's the same...
...group at 12:58 a.m. this morning in Harvard Square. Witnesses report that they saw one young man run from the Yard into the Square followed closely by the five policemen at that time. Neither Cambridge nor Harvard police would release any statement about the arrests. Members of Collins' band last night were distributing circulars condemning Collins' arrest after the Soc Rel 153 incident...