Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Voice of Firestone (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Christmas music. Guests include Risë Stevens and the Columbus Boychoir...
...ranges widely and perceptively over ideas and legend. It may light on the aging Admiral Christopher Columbus, appearing on deck in the darkest watch of night "hollow-eyed and crumpled, like a dry, wind-driven, scurrying leaf." Or on Diogenes: "His castle was an upended winevat by the gates of Corinth. Alexander the Great called on him there. All radiant, the Conqueror leaned down across the neck of his white charger, doffed his golden helmet and inquired what he might do for Diogenes. 'Move on,' Apollo's man suggested. 'You're in my light...
...COLUMBUS IN THE NEW WORLD, text and photographs by Bradley Smith (191 pp.; Doubleday; $15). As befits its subject, this one is less impressionistic than Photographer Beny's book on the Odyssey, but it is equally successful. The photographs are mostly in color, and they show the Caribbean as Columbus must have seen...
...meditative loneliness, a single customer last week sipped a beer in Chad's Twist Lounge-the only nightclub left in Phenix City (pop. 29.000). on the Alabama side of the Chattahoochie River, across from Columbus. Ga. All that day, members of the Chamber of Commerce had been stringing Christmas lights across the city's main street; a local radio station had hired a plane to bombard the town with colored pingpong balls that were exchangeable for merchandise at the million-dollar Phenix City Plaza Shopping Center; a weekly newspaper glowingly reported plans for the second annual Christmas parade...
...time making speeches," he says. "There's a million guys who can make a better speech than I can." He normally spends his working day, from 10 a.m. to about 1 a.m., seated in a red leather chair behind a big desk in the party headquarters in Columbus. At night, when the office is quiet, he pulls sheaves of public opinion surveys out of a desk drawer and pores over them, calculating percentages and searching for patterns and trends...