Word: capes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good humor and willingness to help each other that they had exhibited twelve years earlier. At Beame's request, stores, banks and most offices closed, reducing traffic on the city's streets. At the intersection of Park Avenue and 79th Street in Manhattan, an athletic young man wearing a cape and holding a pink flare controlled traffic like a matador handling a bull. On the other side of the island, traffic was directed on Riverside Drive by David Epstein, 17 He joked: "My mother told me to go out and play in the traffic, and here I am." Sixteen passers...
...dither about it, but Max is right-non-mobile back-beat lovers will find this a summer of pretty slim musical pickings. The best rock around this week is out in the southern hinterlands. Ray Davies and the Kinks will be playing out at the Cape Cod Coliseum on July 2. Tickets are $7.50 in advance, $8.50 the day of the show and are available at the Out of Town Newsstand in the Square. Later in the week, Fleetwood Mac will play their various chartbusters at the Providence, R.I., Civic Center. Tickets for both concerts are available...
There is a large white nation here (more than 4 million whites, as against 270,000 in Rhodesia and 300,000 in preindependence Angola). Besides, white men established the first permanent settlement at the Cape long before blacks arrived in large numbers. True...
...most vociferous reaction came from Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. The vacation islands now have one representative apiece; under the redistricting plan, they will share a single representative with either upper or lower Cape Cod. Complaining that they will be deprived of an individual representative for the first time since the 17th century, some islanders threatened secession (TIME, March 21, 1977). New Hampshire's archconservative Governor Meldrim Thomson muddied the waters further by promising Nantucketers that he would give them "two or three representatives and maybe a senator" in Concord's legislature; he also pointed out that...
...finally, let's not overlook the 360-degree turn Harvard baseball made this season on account of some pig-headed athletic intellectuals down on the Cape. Guess we'll just have to go get 'em next year--Ugh, I said it again...