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...minutes later, he got up, and, along with more than 20 others and three police cars, completed the first leg of a peace walk from Boston to Provincetown, at the tip of Cape Cod. The first day had been uneventful--that is, the marchers had been jeered everywhere they went; they had been cussed, called cowards, and belted just a few times with eggs and tomatoes. None of this was unexpected; it's part of the routine of peace marches, and those who participate in the demonstrations understand it well...
...purpose of the march, which expects to reach the tip of Cape Cod by the end of the month, is not only to protest the war in Vietnam but also to promote belief in pacifism. In a pamphlet entitled "Why We Walk," the marchers declare...
...silver-iodide seeds from U.S. planes. The weatherman flashes Moscow that intense hail is due to fall on Irkutsk by early afternoon, and the Russians quickly send up rockets laden with chemicals, melting the hail before it lifts the wheat fields. As for more mundane matters, vacationers on Cape Cod will have a clammy morning-but only until 10:40 a.m. And the working girls in Chicago had better go to lunch plastic-headed: it will rain from...
...rush up to the net." Today's middle-agers not only dot the greens, they vault the net. They sail, ski, waterski, skin-dive and spelunk. They swim, walk and climb. They fish, hunt, camp and swarm all over the great outdoors from Big Sur to Cape Cod. They are a participating rather than a spectator generation...
...year, $600 million program that doubled the number of campsites in existing parks and added more than 100 visitor centers. Since 1961, however, the Government has enlarged the total system by barely 3%, adding 844,000 acres through the acquisition of such areas as Massachusetts' Cape Cod National Seashore and New York's Fire Island National Park. Cramped for space, the park service is encouraging tourists to make wider use of less popular areas...