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While the elks seethed, the hippies did their thing. They restored many of the Victorian jewel-box buildings (the entire town was named a national historic district in 1963) and established tough, low-growth zoning codes. Fifteen summer festivals, including one for mushrooms, sprang up; the eleven- year-old Telluride film festival is one of the most respected in the U.S. Radio station KOTO still plays the marching music. "Some days you can hear 6 1/2 hours of Bob Dylan," says Actress Susan Saint James, who came for the film festival and decided to buy a house five years...
...when Olga came to Cambridge for a short vacation, Svetlana sprang the news that they were leaving for the Soviet Union. Whether she said they were going for a visit or for good is not known. What is certain is that Olga did not want to go. The Mansfields heard the yelling in the flat below. At first they thought it was another one of Svetlana's tirades. Then they realized it was Olga who was shouting. "Why didn't you tell me? Why didn't you consult with me?" Two days later mother and daughter were in Moscow. Said...
...starving, often dressed in rags, thousands of Ethiopian refugees continued to stagger across the drought-stricken northern wastelands of their country last week. Their destination was neighboring Sudan. On their heels came disturbing reports of Ethiopian air force planes strafing refugee columns and bombing villages. As makeshift relief camps sprang up and swelled with alarming rapidity on the Sudanese side of the border, yet another specter began to haunt Africa: the threat that the exodus of starving people would overwhelm the meager resources of Sudan, whose population of 21 million already has been increased by 600,000 Ethiopian refugees. Sudan...
...bowing to a wave of anti-apartheid protest that continued to grow last week in the capital and at least 13 other U.S. cities. Two miles from the Old Executive Office Building, where the President spoke, a steady trickle of luminaries continued to join the picket line that sprang up in front of the South African embassy three weeks ago. In all, more than 50 people, including 13 members of Congress, have been arrested in the protest. Among those charged with trespassing or crossing a police line last week were Democratic Representatives Louis Stokes of Ohio and Mickey Leland...
...which consisted of random gunshots or the din of a sledgehammer pounding on sheetmetal. The aim of this group, beyond sheer insanity, was to destroy the foundations of what makes art, and thereby to undermine one aspect of a society they saw as inherently evil. Their irreverence and vulgarity sprang from the same ethos that the punks' did--a conviction that anything at all is better than what we have...