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...Dylan faithful, who regularly look to him for an indication of pop music's next new direction. The best they can do is ponder several of the new Dylan songs that seem to be exploratory sketches from a low-key musical notebook. There is, for example, Wigwam, in which Dylan goes "da-da-da-da" to a slow marching tune while-believe it or not-a choir of bugles and low brass urges him along...
...campaign, crowds castigated Andrew Jackson and his wife Rachel as bigamists because her divorce from her first husband was not final when they married. To forestall protesters in his bid for the Republican nomination in 1860, Abraham Lincoln was not above packing the galleries of the Chicago Wigwam with his cheering friends. Ulysses S. Grant's hopes of a third term as President were thwarted by pro-Garfield hecklers on the convention floor...
However, the rule was not meant to apply to John Wayne, who was called on for an "inspirational reading" rather than a run-of-the-mill invocation. Demonstrations for candidates were also cur tailed. When Lincoln was nominated in 1860, such a din rocked Chicago's Wigwam auditorium that, as one witness observed, "a thousand steam whistles, ten acres of hotel gongs, a tribe of Comanches might have mingled in the scene unnoticed." Miami Beach will be different. This time candidates were limited?in theory at least?to 20-minute outbursts in their behalf with no more than...
Satellite Chapels. The new Roman Catholic cathedral, already dubbed "Paddy's Wigwam," "The Rocket," "The Crown" and "The Pope Goes to the Moon," nonetheless provides both Catholics and architects with occasion for rejoicing. The winning design was selected in 1960 by a committee headed by Liverpool's archbishop, John Cardinal Heenan (now Archbishop of Westminster in London), from among 300 submitted. It turned out to have been executed by Congregationalist Frederick Gibberd, 59, the architect and city planner responsible for London's Heathrow Airport and the new town of Harlow...