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Much of this calendar esoterica can be found in Chase's Calendar of Annual Events, an oddball almanac that lists 2,300 days and events around the world. Published by William Chase, 52, of Flint, Mich., the 68-page booklet includes celebrations like Whoop-Up Days in Alberta, Canada, the Bratwurst Festival in Bucyrus, Ohio, or the Festival of the Hungry Ghosts in Singapore...
...band of Indians had taken over a 612-acre former girls' camp, now a forest preserve in New York's Adirondack State Park. They claimed the camp land and, thinking big, some 9 million additional acres in New York and Vermont, as Ganienkeh-the Land of the Flint, an independent Indian nation. Since then, to the frustration of state authorities and the growing anxiety of Big Moose's white settlers, the Indians have refused to budge. The squat-in is fast approaching a legal crunch, and TIME Cor respondent Don Sider recently visited the Indian camp...
Some states and some cities, like some people, are hurting more than others. Michigan has been particularly hurt by the auto slowdown; in Flint, a big builder of Buicks and Chevrolets, the unemployment rate is more than 14%. Delaware, California and New Jersey have also been clobbered, with the inner cities hit worst of all. "In the spring it took 15 minutes to get your unemployment check and get out," says Charles Johnston, an out-of-work carpenter in Trenton. "Now it takes from an hour to an hour and a half." The South still has a lower unemployment rate...
...shields fashioned from turtle shells. In severe cases, a vet may brood for days and then begin to experience violent "flashbacks" to his war experiences. One vet in Casper, Wyo., who had accidentally napalmed a Vietnamese orphanage, still reconstructs in his head the writhing bodies of screaming children. In Flint, Mich., an Army vet was so devastated by his Viet Nam experience that he spent his days doing little more than cleaning his rifle and rocking on his front porch...
...decision (now being reviewed by the Supreme Court) ruled that Detroit public schools were racially segregated as a result of state and local policies and ordered them to integrate, through the use of busing, with schools in 52 suburban districts; of a heart attack; in Flint, Mich...