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...youthful summers. It was in the rambling, red-roofed Auchincloss manor that she made her 1947 debut. It was in Newport's St. Mary's Church that Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy were married in 1953, and on Hammersmith's spacious lawns that nearly a thousand townsmen, politicos and other out-of-towners swarmed for the reception...
...daughter of a pastor, and his father is a peasant who, through great ability and energy, has become a master builder. The father is the embodiment of the century's early surge of humanism; a fearless and optimistic man who taught himself architecture, and who leads his fellow townsmen in the building of schools and the forming of dramatic societies. He dies while Henry is still young, and his widow cuts up his green military uniform to make a suit for the boy. From then on, green is the only color the worshipful Henry will wear, and his schoolmates...
Despite the state of siege which puts this city of more than half a million under control of the military, an 8 p.m. curfew was ignored by thousands of rebellious townsmen...
...behind an old folks' home outside of town. In an hour the flames had reached the first trees above, and the whole ridge to the north and west of town roared as the fire leaped through treetops, gobbling up great stands of ponderosa pine in one crackling rush. Townsmen quickly set to work spraying and shoveling under flames that licked down toward houses at the edge of town. National Guardsmen rolled in with bulldozers to make a firebreak. Fire fighters rushed in from Colorado, Montana...
...shepherd playing Jesus, finally leads the town to revolt against its leaders. Their revolt soon deflates, however, and they join their pope in a battle against the exiles which forces the Turkish Agha to deliver Manolios to death at the hands of his townspeople. Shocked by the crime, townsmen begin to join the exiles against the Turks...