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...hostelry the Broadmoor. Legend has it that once a spotter with binoculars kept vigil in its tower, and when he cried, "Here come a bunch of Osages!", the rate on the bridal suite immediately was tripled, and the arriving oil-rich redskins always were installed there with sly but obsequious ceremony. Like most Western legends, this one is of dubious authenticity, but it is a fact that for close on to half a century, the sprawling Broadmoor, whose facilities meander over 5,000 acres just west of looming Pikes Peak, has attracted some millionaire Indians as well as a succession...
DIRECTIONS '65 (ABC, 12:30-1:30 p.m.). Live telecast of an Easter Vigil service, an ancient Catholic tradition revived in 1951 by Pius XII, now celebrated for the first time in English, from the Church of St. Gregory the Great in Baltimore...
Purring like contented kittens, the most remarkable support crew ever assembled kept unceasing vigil last week as Gemini spun through space with its two passengers. At Cape Kennedy and at the space complex in Houston, at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and at 14 other sites from the Canary Islands to the South Indian Ocean, dozens of electronic computers guided, watched, advised and occasionally admonished the two astronauts. In fact, the Space Age's first orbiting digital computer, a hatbox-sized model that can make 7,000 separate calculations a second, went along for the ride in Gemini...
About 35 clergymen began a vigil in front of the Capitol at 10 p.m. Tuesday to protest the beatings of that day. They asked if they could give a prayer on the Capitol steps, but a tight ring of state troopers prevented any movement toward the steps...
...other poems, "The Body Vigil" and "Im Herbst," although both are rather weak in organization from stanza to stanza, show that Kershner has developed a poetic vocabulary. He speaks again and again of the seasons, of ice, of wind, of worms, of fire, and these images come to define, not merely describe, feelings...