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...support the principle of an alternative service (such as the Peace Corps or VISTA) satisfying your national obligation...
Married. Katharine Bancroft Schlesinger, 24, daughter of Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., a VISTA volunteer doing domestic Peace Corps chores in Kentucky; and Gibbs Von Kinderman, 23, Harvard '64, performing similar tasks in Tennessee for the Appalachian Volunteers; in Lincoln, Mass...
...either Edwards or Fuller. The ghostly visitations over that swamp near Ann Arbor, Mich., last March happened too recently to have been included in either book, but sincere testimony to the miracles of the space age abound like grace. Samples: Intrepid small boys with .22 rifles near Rio Vista, Calif., last December got in some shots at a UFO hanging about the town water tower and extorted a satisfactory twang and an angry red glow from the visitor. Some Italian farmers pelted a UFO near Milan in October 1954 with rotten oranges, scoring, they claimed, some hits. They...
...prairies of briny waves, the American wilderness seemed to have only distant dimensions. The way to conquer that expanse was to shrink it to human scale and bring man to the foreground of the new nation's wide horizons. Winslow Homer set out to bring the American vista into focus...
Since the play ping-pongs between these two households, it was logical to devise a basic unit-set in which the entrances of the two residences face each other diagonally at the sides of the stage with an open vista between -- much in the manner of the conventional settings of ancient comedy...