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...seaport near Marseille, De Plata is of the best flamenco tradition. He is illiterate, cannot even read music. His father was a horse trader who taught his son the guitar and encouraged him ("Manita, you have remarkable hands"). For the next 20 years, roaming southern France in the caravan, De Plata stayed out of school to spend his time practicing and listening to other gypsy players...
Polite Police. At the Mississippi line a similar escort, but with fixed bayonets, picked up the caravan for the trip to Jackson. Someone hurled a rock at the bus, but most of the spectators just stared, took pictures, or waved derisively...
...lost her speech in infancy and "grown up wild." Well, then, "Believe! Believe and say 'God!' Say it! Say it!" Salome, swept away by George's oil-slick, sensual emotionalism, says it-"God!"-again and again "in humility and gratitude and ecstasy." George runs a traveling caravan that swizzles bourbon with its brimstone, and Salome, or Angel Baby, as they call her, hooks up. Brother George was long ago spliced to Mercedes McCambridge, a twisted, Bible-quoting shrike, but their platonic trailer-camp marriage is as punishing as purgatory. So those "illustrated sermons," in which Salome dances...
Peace Corps Project. The Secret Service have had little trouble with sightseers. So far. the road past Glen Ora has been a mess. It's better now, and last Sunday there was quite a caravan, led by a woman driver who got past the gatehouse, followed by about ten other cars. She was stopped, naturally, and everybody had to start backing (the country road past the entrance to Glen Ora is definitely one way). The tourist approach will probably change as the weather improves. Virginia's Historic Garden Week and the Middleburg Races in April bring a flush...
...Souvanna Phouma to power. In Peking, Red Chinese Foreign Minister Marshal Chen Yi warned: "If the lawful Laotian government (i.e., the rebels) asked the Chinese government to give aid, I can assure you we would give it." In Paksé, Prince Boun Oum loaded worried Western diplomats on a caravan of elephants and took them on a leisurely tour of surrounding villages, where lithe maidens turned out with bowls of flowers at every stop...