Word: san
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...noon of Sunday, the 6th of July, the fiesta exploded .,. . It kept up day and night for seven days. The dancing kept up, the drinking kept up, the noise went on." Thus, in 1926 in The Sun Also Rises, did a young Ernest Hemingway describe the Feria de San Fermin, the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. This month his widow Mary made a sentimental journey to Pamplona to witness the unveiling of a monument to Papa, erected by the citizens in gratitude for his interest in their fiesta. Standing on the newly named Paseo de Hemingway, Mary thanked...
Going into the season's second half, eleven of the 20 big-league clubs are in the throes of attendance slumps. Ticket sales are 50,000 off last year's mid-season mark in Houston, 126,998 in Pittsburgh, 245,592 in Atlanta. In San Francisco, paid admissions are already down 277,182 from 1967-a season that was also disastrous at the box office. Total big-league attendance is off almost 6% this year. And it would be far worse except for Detroit, where the Tigers, driving toward their first American League pennant in 23 years, have...
...ghetto areas, which many fans are afraid to traverse at night. The pitchers' domination of the sport and the concurrent decline in hitting (as of last week only eight major-leaguers were batting .300) undoubtedly have had an impact: "Pitching may be 75% of the game," says a San Francisco sportswriter, "but hitting is 75% of the gate." So has the fact that neither league boasts anything resembling a pennant race: the Tigers enjoy a 7½game lead in the American League, and the St. Louis Cardinals top the National League by nine games...
...been backstage informed us that he had it from Uncle T of the Freedom Machine that none of the organizers had any idea where the Who actually was. "They could be anywhere," he said. "In this business everybody lies. The manager of a group will call up from San Francisco and say they're being held up at the local Turnpike...
Spanish colonists, American Indians and African-descended slaves used effigy and icon as a part of their religious rituals. In San Antonio, Girard displays pre-Inca dolls found inside burial shrouds, Christian saints and angels, Haitian voodoo fertility symbols. Among the tableaux that most colorfully mix the half-Christian, half-pagan customs are those depicting All Souls' Day (Nov. 2), a festival celebrated in Latin America as a cheerful holiday for the dead...