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...Said Maveret Daigle of Albany, whose husband fought at Monmouth: "I never used to go on these, until a very pretty woman told me what fun my husband was on these re-enactments." True to historical accuracy, Mrs. Daigle became a camp follower, cooking, washing clothes and keeping the tent clean. She has marched with her husband to Bennington, Vt., Ridgefield, Conn., and Short Hills, N.J., and has become an enthusiast. "When we camp in the forts," she explains, "you can almost sense how it was. The walls have vibes...
Elevation of spirit is the obvious in tent of Whiting's language, but an afflatus of rhetoric is what we often get. With the play running a ponderous three hours, a pace-and-scissors job might be a distinct blessing...
...wanted to come into the Norwegians' camp and look around. The Norwegian commander did not want the Israelis in his camp and told them so. They insisted. Sensing trouble, the commander put an end to the affair by ordering his men to attack the Israelis by using their tent poles as clubs, all the while chanting a war cry. The astonished Israelis grinned and backed away...
...Ling clambered down from his seat on the right arm of the Father, and disappeared into his tent. "He's getting his wok," Lori said in her gravelly voice. "We're going to have the traditional revolutionary meal of his ancestors." She paused. "They ate it before the Big One in '48." Too emerged with the huge dome upside down over his head, looking like a toadstool...
Uemura resumed the trek after a new tent and fresh food supplies were airdropped. Scientists at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., were able to pinpoint Uemura's positions by monitoring signals from a 3½-lb. transmitter mounted on his sledge. The transmissions were picked up by a Nimbus 6 meteorological satellite as it passed over the Pole every 108 minutes and relayed by a NASA tracking station in Fairbanks, Alaska, to Greenbelt...