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...power failure at Kirkland House that lasted for more than an hour produced a riot of mild proportions in the Deacon courtyard last night...
Lights went out all over the House at approximately 11:10 p.m. and did not go on again until shortly after midnight. During the interval, over two dozen students discharged a few firecrackers, threw some water from windows, and milled around the courtyard; but did not break out in a mass demonstration...
Before the curtain parted, a young Javanese woman announced, in careful but cheerful English, each of the nine numbers. She said such reassuring things as: "This dance has no symbolic meaning. It's just a dance." The single setting showed a moonlit temple courtyard crowded with men in colored turbans, sitting comfortably behind gilded consoles, beating on xylophone-like strips of metal with wooden hammers. In the rear hung three huge, deep-humming brass gongs. At the foot of the temple steps, two men sat and fluttered butterfly fingers against tubular drums. The music of a Balinese gamelan...
Pope Pius XII, a bit under the weather with a slight fever and a mild cold, canceled all audiences for the remainder of the week. But by week's end His Holiness felt well enough to appear at a window overlooking the inner courtyard of the papal summer residence at Castel Gandolfo to give his blessings to a crowd of 300 pilgrims...
MOST famous cinema stars have, at one time or another, placed their hands & feet in a block of wet cement in the courtyard of Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood, thereby receiving some desirable publicity and, after the cement has hardened, attaining a certain immortality. The only columnist who has been so honored is Louella Oettinger Parsons...