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...tour is different. It began, of all places, in Plymouth, where the Pilgrims settled, and it quickly became an oddly timeless journey: a rambling, almost casual camper and bus tour of college towns and blue-collar community halls. Ticket sales for such places as Waterbury, Conn., Durham, N.H., and Niagara Falls were announced five days before the event and then only by handbills. "The idea," says Dylan's boyhood friend Louis Kemp, 33, who is managing the tour, "is to go from town to town, do whatever the group wants, whenever they want, wherever they want...
...enterprising cox from the Niagara District Rowing Club decided her boot could make much better time if it simply hooked onto the MIT boat just a head of them, a power five, and bow and stern suddenly became one and the same, to the indignation of the Kendall Sq. crowd...
...struggle for civil rights, and to this end he favored the cultivation of a small faction, a "Talented Tenth" as he called it, which would lead the masses of black people in their fight for equality. DuBois's program left him open to charges of elitism, and the Niagara Movement, which he organized in 1905 as a bulwark of opposition to Washington, failed because of those charges...
...become Miss U.S.A., I would have become a counselor for the Girl Scouts this summer," said Summer Bartholomew, 23, sounding like any old girl-next-door. After collecting this year's Miss U.S.A. crown at Niagara Falls, however, the Merced, Calif., beauty has forsaken the scouting life for the banquet circuit and a shot at the Miss Universe title in San Salvador in a month. On her first-ever visit to New York City, Summer talked about her victory ("My first thought was to thank the Lord") and her recent trip to Niagara Falls ("That's where...
...allowed Actor Ben Gazzara after driving to the Chicago premiere of Capone in Big Al's own Cadillac limousine. The six-ton, bulletproof car, built in 1928 and later used by President Franklin Roosevelt, had been specially shipped in for the premiere from its permanent display place in Niagara Falls, Canada. "I'd love to have it for city driving," quipped Gazzara, who came to the screening decked out in a Capone-style pin-stripe suit, full-length rabbit coat, and half of the extra 20 lbs. he had put on for his role. The fans seemed more...