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...others wish, let them march in infinitely complex (but usually boring) formations. Let others continue to allow the one hundred odd musicians to languish on the field while someone on the PA system, in a nauseatingly self-satisfied tone of voice, makes what are supposedly 'cute' remarks but are in fact a series of solid lead balloons, so tiresome that soon no one listens at all. You have a great opportunity to revivify the whole scene and provoke once again the comment in the New Yorker 'the best in the business.' All it takes is two qualities supposedly often present...
Richard C. Hannibal York, Pa...
Crime and other "worldly" problems rarely touch the plain-living Amish and Mennonite residents of New Holland, Pa. Indeed, no one could recall any precedent for the violence against Naomi Huyard, a frail, friendly woman of 50. On the evening of Nov. 27, the Amish woman left her farmhouse and walked across the road to the home of John and Lillian Herr to store several boxes of cauliflower in a freezer in their garage. When she did not return, her sister became alarmed and notified neighbors, who called the police. After a three-hour search of the neighborhood, a state...
...Dillingers stood in a mountain pasture greeting hundreds of nearly naked black Dani tribesmen and women who had gathered for a traditional pig feast. The two missionaries seemed as much at ease as they would be at a church potluck supper in Leon's home town of Souderton, Pa. Leon chatted with the last man in the village to accept Christianity: the son of the sorcerer. Lorraine sampled food that a Dani woman had just pulled from the braising pit hollowed out of the ground for the occasion...
...ground-down demeanor of a half-century earlier, acquiring the glumly descriptive epithet of Rust Bowl. By December, the nation's steelmakers were operating at less than 35% of capacity, the lowest rate since 1938, and at least one concern, the steelmaking division of Lukens, Inc. of Coatesville, Pa., planned virtually to close up for ten days over the Christmas and New Year's holidays, idling 2,600 employees for lack of orders...