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...heavily black communities. When it's hot, people are out all over; Donnell's Store does brisk business in ice, soda pop and ice cream despite a sign admonishing "No Checks Accepted Unless You Are 99 With Your Mother 109." Further down, near the river, you may find a tent crusade. All this summer, the Reverend Ezra kept his congregation under the canvas with his message that riches lead to misery. "He don't own that million dollars, it owns him," Ezra proclaims. "None of us owns anything. Whatever we accumulate, God can come anytime he wants and pick...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Pinball, Disco, Food. It's Found in Cambridge | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...same reason, the Kurdish party, unlike some other groups, refused to boycott the constituent assembly election and even nominated three candidates of its own. Says a Kurdish lawyer: "We want to be inside the tent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: A Deal with The Orphans | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...first of two performances last week, an electrical failure plunged the music tent into blackness at the finale, prompting a brief, wild surmise that Bess had succeeded.) Death, she sings to his departed spirit, is the "door from which you will never escape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Houdini: The Riddle Remains | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...guests cross the broad terrace to the crushed-velvet lawn of bent, meadow and rye grass, they face a crucial decision: to head straight for the green-and-white striped refreshment tent, to claim one of the limited number of tables or to stake out a position along the royals' walkabout route. Two out of three is the best even a sprinter can hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Splendor on the Grass | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...protect fragile permafrost from being rutted by tire tracks, much of the Dempster is built on an elevated roadbed that rises as high as 6 ft. above the terrain. Thus it becomes difficult, as well as illegal, to pull off the highway and pitch a tent for the night, except at the sanctioned sites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Two Throughways to the Arctic | 5/14/1979 | See Source »

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