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...rotating dance. As the old year wanes, fireworks flare above the beach. Then at midnight, hundreds of thousands of little homemade rafts bearing the offerings are pushed or paddled far out into the waves. If the offering is "accepted" by lemanjá it does not wash back onto the shore and it spells a lucky New Year. Hours later the people wander away, and by dawn all that is left on the sand is a mountain of trash, including the forlorn offerings that returned...
...landscape that is Barrow, Alaska. In mid-November, the sun dipped below the southwestern horizon, bringing winter darkness that will last into January. The city lies wrapped in a frigid cocoon of Arctic night. Beached boats of varying sizes dot the snow-covered ice pack that runs along the shore of the Chukchi Sea. That is the limit of Alaska's North Slope, the last land between America and the North Pole...
...murder and sent to the state pen. Jimmy is dispatched to an orphanage. Fifteen years later, Jimmy (Jan-Michael Vincent) goes looking for his father. He has been paroled, and is now scratching out a living as a mechanic in a small town on the New Jersey shore, sustained by his girl friend (Brenda Vaccaro). Vengeance, not forgiveness, is the reason for the son's pilgrimage...
...Macmillan. the Egyptian President was a sort of South Shore Mussolini. "In dealing with him [Nasser], every display of timidity or weakness was seized upon and exploited. No action, however generous or fairminded, could reap any reward." As for Dulles, his "vanity more than equalled his talents." At first Dulles told Britain that after seizing the canal, Nasser must be made to "disgorge what he was attempting to swallow." Then the "strange uncertainty of Dulles' own character and the light rein with which the President chose to ride him" began leading American policy along an erratic course. By Macmillan...
...development will renovate a 28.5-acre plot on the shore of the Detroit River. Now occupied by decrepit commercial buildings, the area by 1980 will contain a soaring hotel, four office towers, apartment buildings and retail stores. To design the project, Ford has hired Architect John Portman, a vehement believer in the vitality of cities with proven experience in planning Atlanta's Peachtree Center and San Francisco's Embarcadero Center. Said Ford: "We all know what Chicago has done with its lakefront area. I think we in Detroit should be able to do at least as well along...