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...edge to the Bowling Green, drummers began beating out the long ominous roll that calls soldiers to assembly. In the hazy heat, Continentals and militia, some in blue coats and buckskin breeches, some in brown hunting shirts, formed up, shouldered arms, then clattered over durable Dutch cobblestones to man sod redoubts recently thrown up at the foot of each major street leading to the harbor. At the Grand Battery, where Colonel Henry Knox, commander of Continental artillery, has set up a row of old and partly rusted cannon, sweating artillerymen stood to their pieces and peered southward across the waters...
...double-think"-the typically Irish form of banter that says one thing and means another. It has helped produce a race of verbally agile writers, politicians and pub crawlers. If McGill University Psychiatrist H.B.M. Murphy is correct, it is also producing a high rate of schizophrenia on the old sod...
Then we lick across the broadness of Nebraska--a monolonous, wide-butted stretch of sod. Smiling, broad curves traced in speed fling us onward, out between trucks that grind the air to a pulp and spit a back on us with 14 gears of churning cunning. Plunging to the depth of America--not East and not West, but vastly in between, we seem perched here forever-about nine hours...
...Mayor Thomas Bradley is setting out cherry tomatoes in rows of planters he ordered for city hall's fifth-floor terrace. Governor Milton Shapp has become the jolly green giant of Pennsylvania by getting 25 state institutions to provide excess land, plowing, water and fertilizer for would-be sod-busters. In Milwaukee, county and city governments are leasing 2,500 plots to the public at $8 each per year. From coast to coast, gardening clinics are packing in S.R.O. audiences with Hoe-It-Yourself lectures ranging from Coping with Cutworm to Installing a French Intensive Bed (a system designed...
...Hirshhorn collection is by far the largest public bequest of art ever made by a single American. It opens next week, after three nights of inaugural ceremonies punctuated by a "recording of opening fanfare played over sound system at intervals in the lobby." From the turning of the sod to the tootling of the brass, the building has cost $16 million and provoked steady criticism from those who see it as a feat of egotism. (Not even Andrew Mellon, critics complain, insisted that his name should stay in the title of "his" nearby National Gallery.) The Hirshhorn Museum...