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...hand and gamely carried on. Broadway actors performed under the uncertain beams of flashlights held by stagehands; the nude cast of Oh! Calcutta!, unable to grope to their dressing rooms, borrowed clothes from members of the audience and went home in cabs. Waiters at Manhattan restaurants served patrons by candlelight. Buses were delayed only slightly by darkened traffic lights. Garbage trucks whined as usual on their nightly rounds. Mayor Abraham Beame, assuming, like many citizens, that a fuse had blown, ad-libbed a quip during a campaign speech at the Co-op City Traditional Synagogue in The Bronx...
...supermarket in Brooklyn, a burly, 6-ft. 8-in. Jamaican security guard brandished a pearl-handled machete and, with four clerks and the manager, chased away a gang of 30 youths." Many owners armed themselves with pistols, rifles or shotguns and sat up all night by candlelight in their stores. Surprisingly few shots were fired. Indeed, there were remarkably few fatalities during the disturbances: three people died in fires, and in Brooklyn, a drugstore owner gunned down a man who was brandishing a crowbar at him while leading 30 youths past the store's accordion-like security fence...
Some 500 diners at Windows on the World, the restaurant on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center, finished their meals by candlelight and rode to the ground on a service elevator that was served by an emergency generator. But 35 people were stranded for the night on the 86th-floor observation deck of the Empire State Building. After a free breakfast provided by the building's management, half of them walked down the stairs to the ground, while the others waited until the elevators began operating again Thursday afternoon...
Across the country, gay communities responded to the Miami defeat with angry marches. In San Francisco, 5,000 activists staged a noisy, impromptu three-hour parade downtown after hearing of the loss. In Chicago, about 175 men and women held a candlelight vigil at midnight. In New York, hundreds of homosexuals marched through Greenwich Village for two straight nights shouting "Gay rights now!" On both evenings, former Congresswoman Bella Abzug, who is running for mayor, calmed the crowds. Abzug, who supports the movement, urged the demonstrators to go home and get some rest: "It's a long fight...
George Mason traveled to Williamsburg by carriage in 1776 to deliver his Virginia Declaration of Rights to the House of Burgesses; Patrick Henry conducted his late-night debates at the King's Arms Tavern by the flickering glow of candlelight. Today's visitors to Colonial Williamsburg explore the nation's oldest and most ambitious historical restoration in shuttle buses and relax in air-conditioned rooms with electric light. But the 20th century comforts carry an inflated modern price tag-and so, in Bicentennial 1976 of all years, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, which runs the restoration, suffered...