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...Garden. Besides the inevitable demonstrations, casts of all the current Broadway musicals will put on a free, open-air show for conventioneers in Times Square. To protect the 5,000 delegates, 15,000 journalists and innumerable hangers-on expected, the city will flood the streets with police. And to drum up business, more than 100 New York restaurants -- including some pricey ones -- are offering lunch specials...
...grandiose vision of the future. Shortly after Duke lost his bid to become Governor of Louisiana last year, Robb drew national attention to his idea for building a high-tech propaganda mill, complete with training on how to appear on television, history lessons and political instruction, even a drum-and-bagpipe corps. It would become an assembly line cranking out articulate, blow-dried Duke clones. "They always have these pictures of people in the Klan, flies buzzing around the head, teeth missing, wiping manure off their feet," says Robb. "Louisiana has one David Duke. We plan to give America...
...cannot support the singling out of this particular instrument," said Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72, who fell just short of accusing the anti drum forces of "cultural arrogance...
That was left to another drum fan, who said that banning the percussion instruments infringed on the religious and spiritual freedom of Africans, and asserted that "drums are the heartbeat of the planet...
...haven't gotten to the right solution yet," said concerned resident Lillian Greeley, who calls the drum sound "unhealthful...