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...town, shopkeepers and bistro owners changed their tune. Crescent-shaped lights were strung over the streets; shop windows were filled with moon-shaped cookies, sausages, souvenir pigeon baskets and ashtrays. Mayor Pierre Forest made Songwriter Perrin an honorary citizen; and last week the city tidied up after a nine-day festival that naturally featured the song, Moonlight at Maubeuge, and drew a crowd of 150,000. Unbelievably, the moon appeared over Maubeuge every festival night...
Sports Spectacular (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).-Climaxing a nine-day tournament at Normandale Stadium, Portland, Ore.: the women's softball world series...
...Singapore by the rajah's eldest son; tinsel, gilded paper and assorted, brightly colored gewgaws required for the crematory tower were not available in import-restricted Indonesia. The family's 200-year-old palace was redecorated, and 1,200 roasting pigs were set aside for the nine-day public barbecue preceding the cremation...
...easiest way to acclimatize himself to the altitude. Denver Bureau Chief Barron Beshoar, a veteran camper, made a 2,660-mile circle of campsites gathering material, and now, to get away from all those who are getting away from it all, is setting off with a friend on a nine-day packhorse trip into primitive country in the Grand Tetons...
...nation Eurailpass offers unlimited rail travel, plus rides on ferry boats and steamers on the Rhine, Danube and Swiss lakes, with a single $125 ticket valid for two months. Rail bargains are being offered by Britain and Ireland: a 1,000-mile tourist ticket for $34 first class and nine-day unlimited-mileage tickets for $39. Switzerland's weekend rail trips offer a return fare almost free, and in the Scandinavian countries tourists are being offered fare cuts...