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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cinemas out, the curfew on, and the TV set dark-but it's too early to go to bed. What to do? For the thousands of Americans in the city's apartment buildings and hotels, the problem is easily resolved. They can always go up to the roof and watch...
...York City last week, cops counted only about 500 kids gathered around the hotel v. 10,000 the year before, and the Beatles' trip to Shea Stadium by armored truck seemed dictated more by showmanship than necessity. True, two girls did threaten to jump off a Manhattan hotel roof in the Beatles' honor. But the girls were combing their hair while the crowds gathered, and it was taken as a sign of the times that they chose a 22nd-floor setback of the building and not the 50th floor. Clearly, Beatlemania has seen greater heights...
...Horse. Kates, the son and grandson of professional string musicians and a student of Gregor Piatigorsky, played the Shostakovich Cello Concerto, with which he had stirred the Moscow judges and audience in June. ("Viennese refinements were out-they wanted guts, they wanted the roof to come down," he said.) Hunching his lanky frame over the cello, Kates boldly carved out the jagged, pulsating lines of the piece with a firm tone and a left hand that skipped deftly through the most prickly technical snares. The roof came down...
Family Reunion. He was something of a character himself. To his children, N.C. seemed "a combination of Paul Bunyan and Santa Claus"; to keep that illusion alive, he would risk his neck each Christmas Eve to stomp noisily atop the icy roof of their house. To his neighbors near Chadds Ford, Pa. -where N.C. had settled in 1903 to study under another great illustrator, Howard Pyle-and in Maine, where he subsequently summered, Wyeth was a big-hearted man, equally at home with farmers and fishermen...
...border patrol has built two major "development centers" and three more are under way, complete with dispensaries, trading centers and schools. In the village of Huai Fuang near the Laos border, last week about 50 students sat in crisp regulation white shirts and khaki shorts in an open, thatched-roof classroom, learning to read and count from a border policeman whose platoon had supplied the class uniforms and haircuts. On the wall behind the teacher were three objects that symbolized the new presence: a Thai flag, a picture of Thailand's King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit and a picture...