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...certainly trying. Mingling with 400 friends and neighbors who gathered on his Illinois farm for a beer-and-bratwurst fund-raising picnic, he wore a blue denim jacket and red Funk Seeds cap. In that down-home outfit, it was almost possible to forget that former Senator Adlai Stevenson III, 51, is a patrician intellectual and an unarousing public presence. Nonetheless, the crowd gave him a rousing sendoff, erupting with whoops and whistles when the local Democratic chairman asked, "Is Ad going to win?" Candidate Stevenson, meanwhile, just smiled, looking more embarrassed than flattered by the hoopla...
...lack of parking facilities. I suggested in the city council that Harvard should pave Harvard Yard and make it into a huge parking lot." "Harvard immediately moved across the bridge and created the Business School parking lot. Then they created the shuttle service." "Since we now have a picnic for senior citizens in the Yard once a year...and since that is their favorite picnic spot, any Corporation member suggesting [paving the Yard] will be burnt at the stake right in the Harvard Yard...
...acre hog farm in central Iowa and shook hands with his smiling host. The President headed for the farmyard, where he gingerly scratched the ear of Shank, an 800-lb. boar freshly scrubbed for the occasion. Then he and his Agriculture Secretary, John Block, perched themselves on a picnic table and chatted amiably with a group of 40 farmers, all of whom had voted for their guest in 1980. The President sipped lemonade, spooned into homemade peach ice cream and drew hearty laughs with vintage Reagan storytelling...
...ministers, musicians, many excitedly meeting for the first time. Some stopped off to visit family sites like the grave of Haley's great-great-grandfather, Chicken George. "It was, of course, very emotional," said Haley. By the time everything wound up in that all-American ritual, the family picnic, the Haley clan was already talking about its next giant reunion...
...This year's edition stretches to 24 tableaux, each of which is shown for about 90 seconds. They range from classics like Degas' Dancers Practicing at the Bar and Seurat's Bathing to canvases by American painters Winslow Homer (Crab Fishing off Yarmouth) and John Sloan (Picnic Grounds). There are also reproductions of a medieval tapestry, History of Venus, and several sculptures, notably St. George and the Dragon by Fritz Preiss and Fulda's 11th century antependium for Basel Cathedral. An audience favorite is Norman Rockwell, who has four Saturday Evening Post covers this year...