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When tens of thousands of refugees from Southeast Asia poured into hastily prepared camps in the U.S. last spring, many Americans were deeply troubled. Would the refugees aggravate the bloated unemployment rate? Did they carry exotic diseases? How could they possibly fit in? Last week the 100,000th Indochinese refugee...
THREE FOR THE ROAD (CBS, Sunday, 7 p.m. E.D.T.) features a couple of kids whose roving photographer father (Alec Rocco) allows them to tag along. Schools and other forms of tedium are, of course, as imperceptible as The Invisible Man. The first episode got them involved with hang gliders, which...
The parade was led this year by Thomas Passmore, the county grand master for Belfast, who was seated grandiosely in an open, horsedrawn landau. Most Lodges had a black car and a band in front, then a six-by-eight foot silk banner before a procession of four or five...
And then there's Sandy's Jazz Revival out on Rte. 128 in Beverly--quite a drive and virtually non-existent without wheels. They book more exotic names than the clubs in town, but again, just for short visits--restricting the best people to one night stands.
The gay bar is usually a sexual marketplace. Though most bars are classless?a college professor may walk out arm in arm with a welder?the trend in big cities is toward variety and segregation. There are bars for writers, artists, blacks, collegians, businessmen, middle-class women, "drag queens," transsexuals...