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...tourist-trodden Europe, many major summer music festivals have become the epicenter of a host of satellite festivals in their orbit. With the big events, e.g., Edinburgh, Salzburg, booked solid for months in advance, canny music shoppers are checking for the out-of-the-way festivals, even in the Mideast, which may be short on big-name talent but long on atmosphere. The smaller affairs can be found around almost any corner, and many offer intriguing programs...
...only a few years ago that the romantic young man of action could close his eyes and envision himself a fearless union leader. With a small army of the down trodden but upright marching behind him, he would brave the company goons who surrounded the steel factory where wages were worse than working conditions and the boss beat his wife. But even the most wishful of modern day dreamers cannot avoid thinking that a union leader is a paunchy, jowelled man with a cigar in his right fist and a Madison Avenue lawyer in a tweed suit at his left...
...sold out three hours after tickets went on sale, was picketed by a gang of students who professed to be jazz and classics lovers, and roused the audience to a reaction that the Manchester Guardian described as "an unnerving squeal, like 40,000 Persian cats having their tails trodden on simultaneously...
Local auto density is one of the highest in the nation. Coupled with city streets some of which were well trodden during John Harvard's lifetime, and with 234,000 non-resident vehicles using them every day, a parking problem has resulted...
...beat is often far from journalism's trodden paths. He has traveled some 225,000 miles by plane, train, car, marsh-buggy, horseback and afoot about the U.S. His stories have taken him farther into the backwoods and wilderness than even regional reporters get. His contacts along the way include everyone who can add to his knowledge : city, state and Chamber of Commerce officials, Bureau of Reclamation or Forestry Service agents, rangers, grangers and state legislators -the men who know their areas best. From them he has acquired a knowledge of grassroots U.S. such as few reporters have...