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Such events nourish him. He has just finished attending the Cherry Festival in Traverse City, Mich. That goes on the list with the Holland Tulip Festival and the Virginia Apple Blossom Festival. One of his happiest afternoons in his first year at the White House was taking the Soviet cosmonauts to the Alexandria, Va., firemen's picnic...
...initial interest in Vietnam was, of course, scholarly, not political, but he had been troubled since 1963 by parallels between Vietnam and China in the late 1940s. While in Saigon, he witnessed massive student demonstrations against the Saigon government and the United States. Still, his misgivings did not blossom into full opposition to the war. One reason was the ambivalence of his Vietnamese friends--"intellectuals who feared repression if Communists took over, even though they hated the Saigon regime...
...women are lithe; the ensemble work is solid. The clear, precisely articulated style of Principal Lawrence Rhodes (who moonlights with Eliot Feld's company in New York) marks him as one of ballet's leading male dancers. In June the Pennsylvania Ballet will appear at the Blossom Center Music Festival in Ohio...
...most popular courses is "The Self-Confident Home Mechanic," designed to teach students how to repair light switches, calk pipes and fix appliances. One student, Blossom Gottlieb, 26, is taking the course so she and her husband can renovate their hot-dog stand in the seashore community of Cape May, N.J. Her mother-in-law Virginia, 60, is also enrolled because she rents out two summer cottages there. "It's impossible to get a plumber on July 4," she explains, "and the toilets are always stopped up on holidays." Another student, Pat Ortiz, enrolled because she has knocked seven...
Since then, Capraro has become the First Lady's favorite designer. Susan Ford too has been hooked. Last week Capraro was hard at work sketching a long white gown for Susan to wear in May when she will appear as queen of the Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester...