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Hexagonal kites, hang gliders and children's plastic Hi-Fliers dominated the skies Saturday and left mounds of tangled twine in their wake during the 12th annual Great Boston Kite Festival on Roxbury's Franklin Park Golf Course...
With festivities ranging from speeches, concerts and organic picnics to solar power demonstrations, kite-flying contests and even a few country boys operating stills, the tenth anniversary of the first Earth Day was celebrated in hundreds of other communities across the nation last week. Celebrations in Washington, D.C., started at dawn with choral music at the Jefferson Memorial, followed by a breakfast rally in Lafayette Park for more than 500 bicycling enthusiasts, among them Transportation Secretary Neil Goldschmidt. At Connecticut College in New London, students unveiled a new windmill that will generate enough power to run the campus radio station...
There is another line to his career: his interest in the implacably impervious. It was this quality that first brought him fame?as Fred Kite, the stupefyingly literal-minded and selfish union shop steward in I'm All Right, Jack (1960). It also the source of hilarity in that small masterpiece, The Party, in which Sellers plays a beturbanned Indian, somehow-invited to a grand affair, and wandering through it, friendless and almost silent, but wreaking havoc wherever he turns. Finally, this impermeability is the mark of his great Inspector Clouseau. In countless scenes such as the one from...
...Boston Kite Festival--Franklin Park...
COLLEGE PARK, Md.--Playing in conditions satisfactory only to a masochistic kite flier, the Harvard tennis team battled a feisty University of Maryland team and crosswinds gusting to more than 40 miles per hour here yesterday and emerged with a hard-fought, 5-4 victory...