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Shrouded under tarpaulin on the docks of the Italian port of Livorno are more than 200 American heavy tanks. They have been sitting there, running up storage bills of $1,000,000 a year, since 1967. The beached tanks had been loaded aboard ships bound for Greece, but they were diverted to Livorno when Greece's Premier George Papadopoulos and his fellow colonels seized power and imposed martial law on the country. Reacting to the storm of international protest over the colonels' refusal to restore civilian rule, Washington suspended the flow of U.S. arms...
...climax of a song Claude sings called "Where Do I Go?" He has just received his draft notice, burned his draft card, and he is now asking fiercely. "Is there an answer/in [lovers'] sweet faces/ that tells me why I live and die?" There is a rumble underneath the tarpaulin covering the stage below him. Heads poke out, and arms, waving, reaching. The Hair tribe is nude, facing us. The act has only the logic of despair, but it is not gratuitous. It is only right that they have taken off their clothes. It is a sad and angry gesture...
...fire broke out when one of the actors accidentally threw his lit cigarette on a rubber tarpaulin behind the stage. Seconds later, smoke began to rise from the back of the stage...
...immense tarpaulin dropped and 100 doves soared into the sky as Jacques Lipchitz's latest sculpture, Peace on Earth, was unveiled at the Music Center in Los Angeles. Donated by Philanthropists Lawrence Deutsch and Lloyd Rigler, and valued at $250,000, the 29-ft.-high, 10-ton design gives eloquent testimony to the career of the 77-year-old sculptor. Lipchitz spent three years on the project, laboring in his studio in central Italy. His efforts were interrupted by the Florentine floods of 1966, which devastated his retreat-as well as two-thirds of the design's original...
Much of western Sicily was turned into a giant refugee camp. Hundreds of thousands of Siciliani nervously slept outdoors even in such relatively unscathed cities as Palermo, because aftershocks continued to be felt for days. At the quake's epicenter, the homeless made tents of tarpaulin, huddled by bonfires, and waited for the government to distribute food and medicine, much of it contributed by the U.S. and Britain. Then, as if nature had not already done its worst, violent rains and winds lashed the quake area at week's end, turning the refugee encampments into quagmires and halting...