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...Boston College Eagle Rock Festival turned to Harvard yesterday in a last ditch effort to find an acceptable site for the event, and finding none, went the way of Powder Ridge. It's been cancelled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stooges Shot Down by City And Harvard | 8/14/1970 | See Source »

...canceled. This time the chime is in rhyme, the sounds are all around." Apprehensive local officials, backed by court orders, had prevented some of the biggest names in the world of rock-Joe Cocker, Janis Joplin, Sly and the Family Stone-from performing at the Powder Ridge Ski area near Middlefield, Conn. Undaunted, some 20,000 youngsters turned the reckless affair into a cheerily noisy "people festival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: Peace and Pot on Powder Ridge | 8/10/1970 | See Source »

...himself is one of the highest-ranking blacks. "The blacks started out mistrusting the President, and nothing has happened to change that," Farmer added. "There's an absence of hope-a hopelessness among blacks. I am very much worried about this summer. The Administration is sitting on a powder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Summer: Cloudy, Occasional Storms | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

Ducking Issues. In the final week of campaigning, Wilson, usually accompanied by his wife Mary, billowed through the hustings, laughing off barrages of eggs, bags of talcum powder, Tory hecklers and even a bolt of lightning that struck his train at Attenborough. Heath, whistling across the sceptred isle in an executive prop jet. plugged away at his efforts to swing 49 key marginal constituencies away from Labor. But Heath was unable to match Wilson's jaunty confidence. He did unbend enough toward the campaign's end to drink with workers in pubs and buss young girls. Nonetheless. Heath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Britain: The Odds on Labor | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

...individual liberty, for our stability" when-splat!-a young Conservative hit him with an egg. At other rallies, the Prime Minister caught a soft-boiled egg on his shoulder and a hard-boiled egg on his ear, and his wife Mary was hit by a bag of talcum powder. So it went, as Britain plunged into a three-week national election campaign...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Doffing the Cloth Cap | 6/15/1970 | See Source »

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