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Other Midwesterners have found ways to give a local twist to Revolutionary themes. Bedford, Ind., has commissioned a 21-ft.-long statue, to be made from its famed limestone, of George Washington crossing the Delaware. Explorer Scouts in Topeka plan to pilot an airplane along the perimeter of the U.S., ending in Philadelphia on July 4, 1976. Civic groups in Libertyville, Ill., are painting about 50 fireplugs to represent Revolutionary War heroes...
...Occult Twist...
Gallagher has departed, so today's contest on Soldiers Field at 3 p.m. between the ancient rivals--who first played each other in hardball in 1868--should not have such an occult twist...
...anti-Establishment stance is not too far removed from Wallace's attacks on "pointy-headed" bureaucrats, though Brown is more cerebral and lacks the Alabaman's folk venom. The California Governor is not so much concerned with the "little man" as with Everyman. With a slight twist on Spiro Agnew's "rad-libs," Brown's supporters might be called "rad-cons...
...stage is set for a traditional web of romantic and erotic involvements that was spun out as long ago as Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangeureuses and as recently as Bob and Carol & Ted and Alice. But Beatty has added a new twist: by making a hairdresser his central character, he has come up with a man whose vigor is representative of the virtues of the times. While in romance of the past, the gallant suitor parried with a deft sword or shot a pistol with deadly accuracy, George tucks his electric hairdryer into his belt as he jumps...