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...Connecticut Drummers Association in Walling ford, Conn. The fifes and drums echo anew each July along the Connecticut River, where sleepy New England villages like Chester, Deep River and Moodus quietly proclaim a heritage as old as the Republic itself. The occasion is the annual Deep River Ancient Muster, the gathering ground for fife-and-drum corps, which this year attracted over 10,000 spectators and musicians. TIME Correspondent Richard Ostling, who is the son of a drummer, attended the muster and sent back this report...
...parade, proudly arrayed in tricornered hats and scarlet colonial coats. The Ancient Mariners wore the motley collection of striped jerseys and white pants used by enlistees before the U.S. Navy settled on a common uniform. The silver cup awarded for the most authentic uniforms-the only contest at the muster-went to the variety of hand-sewn Confederate uniforms worn by the 32nd Virginia Field Music, a group from Williamsburg...
...overflow of fifers and drummers set up their own jam sessions. One of those basking in the deafening music was Raymond Hill, fire chief of the City of Los Angeles. In Washington for a firemen's seminar, he had come to Deep River to attend his fifth muster. "Anybody who can hear an ancient corps and not have the hair raise on the back of his neck, why something's wrong with him," he said...
...afoul of the Stones when he decided they were not acting for the good of the community and fired several of them from the K.O.C.O. staff last month. He denounced the gang as a negative element and held a "march against fear" in the Kenwood-Oakland area to muster resident support. Shortly afterward, five bullets were fired through the front window of his home...
...chairman of the First National Bank in Dallas. Ling replaced Clyde Skeen as president of cash-strapped LTV, which had sales last year of $3.75 billion, and the company announced that Ling and Stewart will "share policymaking responsibilities." They are going to need all the policymaking skill they can muster, for rarely has so large a corporation been so close to financial disaster...