Word: processional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Toward noon of a soft London day last week, Westminster Abbey glowed as richly as a Renaissance painting. From the banner-draped high altar to the flower-banked west door, the great Gothic nave was adazzle with tinted plumes and winking tiaras. Packed into rows of rented wooden chairs, the...
In his papier-mache Egypt, Zeffirelli had scattered Sphynxes like sugar cubes; amid palm trees, columns, temples and 200-foot-high idols, he had corralled a cast of 600 singers and dancers and ten Berber horses. There were half-naked belly dancers, Nubian slaves, blue-faced soldiers, ballet dancers painted...
By no coincidence, the only emergency headquarters described in detail was R.S.G. 6, an underground bunker in the Berkshire woods along the marchers' route from Reading to London. Ignoring C.N.D. officials' pleas to stay on the main road, 1,000 of some 15,000 marchers left the procession...
After the procession has reached a platform erected at one end of the Stadium, greetings will be given by Gov. Peabody, representing the Commonwealth; Cardinal Richard J. Cushing, representing Massachusetts churches; and President Pusey, representing the academic world. The Very Reverend Michael P. Walsh, president of Boston College, will also...
The academic procession, awarding of honorary degrees, and Presidential speech will be broadcast live on Channels 4 and 7, beginning at 2 p.m.