Word: pageants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Summer is the time for reruns - intentional or otherwise. Last week, NBC presented "the most unusual and exciting competitive pageant in America," but alas, it still looked like all those other un-unusual and unexciting pageants that parade across the screen this time of the year. There again was the line of dimpled sweet young things, gowns aglitter with sequins, hair piled high and smiles frozen in place from hours of practice before the mirror. There was the usual Congeniality Award and the inevitable quiz to test "poise, conciseness, speech and intelligence" (Host Mike Douglas: "Suzanne, what do you think...
...cards, the Columbia campus had an almost festive air. Leaflets dealing with strike issues flooded the campus, and loudspeakers blared out impassioned oratory. A rock band entertained students with well-amplified sounds, and at one point a pro-rebel group staged a mock funeral procession. A group called the Pageant Players acted out skits lampooning the administration, and played a game of their own invention called "Trustee" on what resembled an outsize Monopoly board...
...reason was that Israeli troops effectively blocked all roads to Jerusalem and thus kept away Arab terrorists, just as they had during last year's Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem and Jerusalem. Police also thoroughly searched car trunks for explosives, stationed men on rooftops and, long before the pageant began, arrested several Arabs suspected of being guerrillas. Israeli infantry and helicopters chased a sabotage squad of Arabs carrying a variety of explosives through the ravines of Judaea, killing...
...celebrate its 20th year as a nation -and its victory over the Arabs almost a year ago-Israel this week plans to hold its biggest military pageant. Almost half a million Jews from all parts of the country will descend upon Jerusalem, arriving in some 25,000 cars and 1,000 buses-a quarter of all such vehicles registered in Israel. Lining the streets or packed into bleachers, they will watch 4,000 uniformed Israelis wend their way through both the old and the new city. Jets will fly overhead, Centurion tanks will rumble past the ancient walls...
...almost surrealistic ceremonies included nine speakers, champagne, and the crowning of a Miss Dunster Light Pipe. Sally Gates, a Drama Society participant, christened the light bridge in a ritual worthy of Bert Parks and the Miss America Pageant...