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Spreading Blame. The boycotters spent the rest of the morning picketing the café with signs, "Don't pay more today than you paid yesterday." Later, they pitched a tent on the sidewalk and started selling their own coffee at 25 paise a cup. Soon a Price Resistance Committee was organized to spread the boycott to other restaurants and shops. Among the joiners were Chidambaram Subramaniam, India's Food Minister, and Asoka Mehta, deputy chairman of India's Planning Commission...
...evening of last June 22 in Darien, Conn., had seemed like many another summer night. A vice president of the Johns-Manville Corp., Francis E. Dutcher, and his wife gave a dinner party for their debutante daughter Nancy. Then there was a dance for about 250 youngsters under a tent on the spacious grounds of Psychiatrist George S. Hughes and his wife, who were giving it with their friends, the William F. Otterstroms (he is general auditor of the Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp.) and the Dudley Felts (he is a consulting engineer), in honor of the families' three debutante...
Everything's changed for the best- How quiyering and fierce we were, There snowbound together, simmering like wasps in our tent of books...
Heckling Colonel. The top Democrat in Germany, Businessman John Ryan, last week invaded Munich's annual Oktoberfest and, surrounded by eight U.S. students brandishing Johnson's picture, delivered a rousing get-out-the-vote speech in front of a tent advertising Löwenbräu beer. He was repeatedly interrupted by a Goldwater heckler in the front row who, Ryan snorts, "must have been a colonel." The Johnson organization in Britain is the largest in Europe, and, with such guest speakers as Actors Anthony Quinn and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Comedian Victor Borge and Novelist Eugene Burdick...
...YORK STATE'S gaudy Tent of Tomorrow, big as a football field, offers continuous amateur entertainment that makes the girders ring with the sounds of drum and bugle corps and square-dance calls...