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...been easier if they'd given him a gold watch. But Canada's Liberal Party caucus, at a farewell party for retiring Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, 70, decided that what the P.M. and Wife Maryon, 64, really coveted was a couple of "skidoo outfits"-explorer-like garb suitable for skimming about on snowmobiles. It wasn't half as squirrelly as it sounded, as the Pearsons are avid skidooers. They donned the quilted jump suits on the spot, and Pearson said he intended to stay thus well insulated "from now on until April"-when a party convention...
Published for the first time are the journal and 285 paintings, sketches and maps in which Father Point made impressively authentic records of the customs, family life, garb, dances and ceremonies of Indian tribes with whom he lived from...
...center, Arusha. Hundreds of young Masai have been drafted into a kind of national construction corps in which they must wear olive green fatigues, floppy jungle hats and heavy boots. If necessary, says Mkwang'ata, police are prepared to herd the Masai into mass baths, burn their ceremonial garb in public and shave off their ochered hair...
...arrested, 13 more had been injured, and the Pentagon had remained immobile. Within the tide of dissenters swarmed all the elements of American dissent in 1967: hard-eyed revolutionaries and skylarking hippies; ersatz motorcycle gangs and all-too-real college professors; housewives, ministers and authors; Black Nationalists in African garb-but no real African nationalists; nonviolent pacifists and nonpacific advocates of violence-some of them anti-anti-warriors and American Nazis spoiling for a fight...
Loud enough for a band three times their size, decked out in such a motley blur of polka-dot pants, fringed suede shirts, neck chains, lizard boots and other psychedelic cowboy garb that they sometimes look like three times as many people, Cream go beyond oddness into originality. In a genre that is virtually defined by vocal effects alone, their slashing, blues-steeped sound is mainly instrumental; they even use their voices like instruments. Their motto: "Forget the message, forget the lyrics; just play...