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...heat making you feel old and cranky? Not to worry. The Dartmouth Children's Museum presents Kidsdays to bring out the child in you again. Check out the South Dartmouth cultural center on Saturday and Sunday for two fun-filled days of face painting, street musicians and arts and crafts workshops, plus a special performance by mime Scot Canon at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. ($5). On Sunday magicians Lyn and Ken perform at the auditorium ($7). Museum hours this weekend are from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and General Admission is $3. Call 993-3361 for more information...
...named "Wild, Wild Wes," who rides with a crow perched on his shoulder, and "Pepsodent Pete," who quit dentistry for the rails. Then there are those who may be starting the life. Thad ("Thunder") Thorton, 22, sits by the Colorado River and talks of being a late child of parents who died early. "I'm not so lonely out here," he says quietly. Thorton left Tulsa last October, aiming to get a Mohawk haircut, see America and eventually settle down as a policeman. So far, he has accomplished the first two goals...
CANDIDACY DECLARED. By Patrick Kennedy, 20, youngest child of Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, for the House of Representatives from Rhode Island's Ninth District; in Providence. Kennedy, who will be a junior at Providence College this fall, will challenge Representative John M. Skeffington Jr. in a September primary. He thus becomes the youngest member of his clan ever to run for public office...
...comedy routine: a crackling line of cross-cultural patter straight from the melting pot. Often it enters Anglo homes and families through the children, who pick it up at school or at play with their young Hispanic contemporaries. In other cases, it comes from watching TV; many an Anglo child watching Sesame Street has learned uno dos tres almost as quickly as one two three...
Milcha Sanchez-Scott, 33, was born in Bali of an Indonesian mother and a Colombian-Mexican father, and lived as a child in Mexico, South America and Britain before her family settled near San Diego when she was 14. Although her father was a middle-class gardener, she identified with those who had not yet fit into the economic system. She became a sometime actress who also worked as a maid and at a temp agency...