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...Atchafalaya River. State undercover narcotics agents circulated in the crowd and made more than 100 busts. One youth died in a hospital tent from a drug overdose. Meanwhile, dazed with blistering heat, and stultifying humidity, the estimated 50,000 youths who gathered to see Country Joe McDonald and John Sebastian were also choked by dust. For the Woodstock Nation, McCrea was a bleak experience of mud, sweat and tears...
...balance as in the New York City Ballet's new instant masterpiece, Choreographer Jerome Robbins' The Goldberg Variations. The unspectacular title refers to the music that both inspired and accompanied the work: the 30 variations based on a theme from the Anna Magdalena Pianobook composed by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1742. Just as Bach's music constitutes a lifetime lesson in keyboard knowledge, Robbins' variations in motion add up to a passionate yet restrained encyclopedia of dance. The Goldberg Variations, which has been made part of the City Ballet's repertoire, is a collaboration that...
...educational campaign. Posters went on display in 950 cities and towns. Fifteen million copies of a decimal currency guide were sent to households throughout the country, including booklets in Welsh and Braille. Television spots urged: "Think decimal!" The BBC put a 13-year-old schoolboy named Sebastian on its breakfast program to explain to his foolish elders how simple decimalization is. Listeners loathed...
Firing Squad. Spain's "disagreeable tension," as one Madrid newspaper rather euphemistically described it, reached the snapping point early last week. After the West German consul in San Sebastian was freed by the Basque terrorist group that had kidnaped and held him hostage for three weeks, speculation increased that the 16 would be treated with moderation. But when, after 21 excruciating days of deliberation, a verdict was finally produced by the five-man military tribunal and approved by the local military governor, some of the sentences were even harsher than those demanded by the prosecution. One defendant was acquitted...
...climax of an uncompromising two-year campaign to crush the nettlesome E.T.A. The outfit, which has only 200 active adherents, has been a persistent irritant, punctuating its fuzzy demands for a Marxist Basque state with demonstrations, bombings and bank holdups. It was the 1968 San Sebastian murder that convinced the Caudillo it was time to crack down...