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...Boston transformed its historic Common into an open-air, museum for its second annual Art. Festival this week. In brightly decorated tents were some 400 pictures and sculptures. To back up the art, there were nightly concerts, and rides for the kids on the park's graceful swan boats. In four days last year more than 150,000 people came to the event, and this year's crowd looked even bigger...
...Nkrumah broke with Danquah at an open-air meeting in the village of Saltpond. It was not his own idea. His "young men" threatened to ditch him if he did not grab the leadership from Danquah's "fuddy-duddies." Nkrumah got scared. He leaped on to a table and shefuted, "My life is in danger ... If I refuse to lead them, they will kill me!" At that, a girl disciple jumped up alongside him and started singing Lead, Kindly Light. The audience joined in, and Nkrumah suddenly knew that his hour had struck. His Convention People's Party...
...California, the Fish & Game Department counted up the cost of ammunition, transportation and equipment, figured that it cost local hunters at least $2.50 a lb. for a venison steak. Included in the price tag, however, were some intangible assets: "A healthy, open-air venture, congenial friends who talk the same language, and the chance to change the everyday routine of living-even if it only means getting away from the wife...
...stern old soldier thawed a little and permitted his inflation-harried countrymen, many of whom had voted for him as an economic savior, to celebrate his return in a national fiesta. From suburbs and provinces they poured into the huge square outside La Moneda, the presidential palace, to watch open-air performances by some 1,200 actors, dancers and musicians on seven different stages. Noisily, they cheered the general in his sky-blue uniform, the parading troops, the flat-hatted cowboy who galloped up to the general and handed him a horn filled with red Chilean wine. Some of their...
...Conniff (the best for "atmospheric prose"), the New York Times's Dick Johnson. The Trib's Marguerite Higgins often filed good stories, says Voorhees, but "she and the other [women] distinctly were out of place in a battle zone conditioned to the convenience ... of the male," e.g., open-air latrines and communal sleeping...