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LIKE Shakespearean wraiths, liveried figures stalk the night-draped battlements, as drum rolls and trumpets echo to the sound of marching below. "Officers call!" barks the adjutant, and eight black-coated officers, swords tight against their shoulders, wheel in close formation across a floodlit field. "Sound attention!" and they come, the main body of six platoons, surging from beneath a darkened arcade. With all the pomp, panoply and flair that can be mustered, the most brilliantly executed military parade in the U.S. is under way. The spectacle is the weekly Friday-night retreat at the Marine barracks of Washington...
...five he discovered music. The town's most famous honky-tonk dance place, Funky Butt Hall, used to send its band-including Cornettist Buddy Bolden, Trumpeters Bunk Johnson and Joe ("King") Oliver-out on the street to drum up business. Armstrong hung around to listen. By the time he was twelve, he was strolling through the Storyville red-light district singing tenor in a boys' quartet. Taunted one day by a neighborhood tough, he swiped a revolver and charged down Rampart Street, firing shots into the air. He was caught and shipped off to the Colored Waifs...
LIKE some cosmic drum roll, the rumble of thunder accompanied the wild winds and torrential rains that swept across most of Indochina last week, heralding the advent of the southwesterly monsoon. From the air, thousands of acres of paddyland glistened in the infrequent sunshine like a vast mirror. By the time the storms abate in October they will have dumped up to 150 inches of rain on the region, turning the ground into a muddy sponge and swelling the majestic Mekong River to flood stage as it courses through Laos, Cambodia and South Viet...
Philosophic Asset. Kennedy, who already has the backing of the A.F.L.-C.LO. and 25 liberal Senators, has been holding hearings around the country in an attempt to drum up broad public support for his plan. He stresses that only his bill would give the Government the leverage it needs to reform the entire health-care system. The Administration stresses the need for a more gradual approach and is courting the congressional center, which is already more attuned to the free-enterprise outlook of the Administration bill than to Kennedy's tack. "We have philosophy going for us," says White...
...mothers forming an ecstatic muster and marching like faceless Johnnies to a nonviolent holy war for justice, dignity and the dream. In this vision, which was the underpinning of his famous "A Preacher Leading His Flock" speech given exactly two months before his death. King saw himself as a "drum major for justice." walking the point alone...