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...From the sidewalk, an unkempt man taunted the demonstrators. "I escaped from the East to see you?" he kept repeating, with some astonishment. Another bystander jeered: "Why don't you all just go over to the other side?" The young people laughed...
Chicago's sidewalk critics have their own ideas about art. Picasso's 50-ft. sculpture in the Civic Center Plaza, some say, looks like a baboon. As for the 53-ft. work by Alexander Calder to be placed near by, it appears, from the model, to resemble a butterfly with long feelers or a tulip bending its petals to earth. "Not at all," retorted the 74-year-old artist. "It's more like a flamingo." Even so, Calder has had to redesign part of the 10-ton carbon-steel structure. "This is supposed to be a stabile...
...analyzing health policy issues and the moral desirability of such technical advances as the mechanical heart. From a base in Los Angeles, Fa ther Nick Weber, 33, and two companions carom round the country in a battered station wagon giving performances of the Royal Liechtenstein One-Quarter-Ring Sidewalk Circus, an amiable blend of circus acts and low-key morality plays. Weber and company live a frugal, catch-as-catch-can existence, begging meals and a place to sleep wherever they stop. A Rochester, N.Y., Jesuit high school teacher, Father William S. O'Malley, is in a different kind...
Food appeared plentiful in small sidewalk markets. Indeed, there were hundreds of little shops selling everything from butcher knives to onions. There was even a souvenir shop selling a few empty bottles, some screws left by the French and bits of downed American aircraft. Free beer is distributed at various points around the city...
Another method of determining spring's arrival is to walk down to the Coop annex on Saturday afternoon. If you hear a lot of loud music, see some freaks milling around, and bargain hunters scouring the record racks at a celebrated "sidewalk" sale (actually it is a garage) for a copy of Thunderclap Newman, then you know that spring...