Word: williamsburgs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SUMMER FOCUS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Fredric March, as George Washington, narrates "1776" in a re-creation of the birth of the nation, with films shot at such historic sites as Lexington, Concord, Boston, Philadelphia, and Williamsburg. Repeat...
DAVID ELLENSON, '69 WILLIAM HAMILTON, '69 College of William and Mary Williamsburg...
...Jewish Publication Society of America and graduate cum laude of a New York Jewish boyhood, brews up a hearty bowl of the same old chicken soup whose recipe was laid down a generation ago by Henry Roth in Call It Sleep and Daniel Fuchs in his Summer in Williamsburg trilogy. Potok, however, adds a slightly different flavor: the conflict of his youthful protagonists is resolved against the waning days of World War II on the home front-a back ground that, in the hands of novelists of all creeds, is becoming a genre in its own right...
...just the money that attracts them. "I believe in this technical assistance," says Marvin Belew of Centerville, Tenn., 53, a civilian air-transport-command navigator in World War II and a county agent for the past 15 years. "It's a chance to help." Charles Wissenbach, 32, of Williamsburg, Mass., is a Mormon who sees his service as "something the Lord would want me to do." William Schumacher, of Catskill, N.Y., a World War II glider pilot, is leaving his wife and ten children behind for his 18month tour, says philosophically about the dangers: "If it happens, it happens...
...Hawaii in the days of King Kamehameha III (1833-54) and a brawling happy-go-lucky port of call for whaling fleets. Under a $1,600,000 state grant, Lahaina's old palaces and prisons, missionary homes and hospitals are being restored into a sort of Polynesian Williamsburg. Tourists can cruise offshore in the 53-ft. schooner The Allure and, in wintertime, watch the herds of 50-ft.-long humpback and lob-tail whales that frolic and cavort with their calves as close as 150 ft. from shore...