New Year Traditions and Calendar Shifts Across Cultures
Notes trace New Year's customs from Scotland and the Dutch in New Amsterdam to calendar reforms in Rome Germany Britain and Sweden. It links open house hosts in colonial America to political changes shaping holiday observances and marks nations that do not celebrate Jan 1.
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Associated Press
Scotland
Royal Canadians
Waldorf
Mesopotamia
Assyria
Julius Caeesar
Caesar
America
Christendom
Gregory
Europe
Germany
Great Britain
Sweden
Asia
New Amsterdam
Times Square
New York State
New England
White House
John Adams
Franklin D Roosevelt
Congress
Roosevelt
Republic of China
Taiwan
Afghanistan
Libya
Burma
Ethiopia
Nepal
Oman
Pakistan
Saudia Arabia
Somali
Sri Lanks
Tanzania
Thailand
Yemen
Richard Pryor in Hollywood to Stay Amid Night Club Tours
Richard Pryor confirms he will remain in Hollywood barring night club tours. He leads in The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings at the Palane Theatre and stars in Car Wash. Pryor plans further screenplays and talks with Michael Schultz for an American remake. He reflects on a serious side, yet aims to keep his comic appeal strong and family friendly. The film features a Motown production with Rico Dawson and Leon Wagner among a large co star cast.
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Richard Pryor
ALL
STAR
Hollywood
Piano Man
Universal
Motor Kings
Palane Theatre
Chari Snow
Billy Dee Willams
James Earl Jones
Pryor
Michael Schultz
Barry Gordy
Stars and Motor Kings
Rob Cohen
John Badham
Georgia
Motown
Pan Arty
Rico Dawson
Sam “Birmingham
Brison
Jopheny Brown
Leon Wagner
Barbs by PH PASTORE A jumble of wits and wordplay
A chaotic column fills with satirical riffs on historical figures and odd phrases. The mock prose riffs on truth and clever phrases, weaving wordplay and stray observations into a curiously fragmented piece.
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PH Pastore
Callaway to Lead Crestive Butte Resort Developer
Former Army Secretary Howard Callaway will become president and CEO of the Crested Butte Development Corp in Colorado. The resort company he and his brother in law bought in 1970 seeks to expand amid past allegations over a Forest Service ruling obtained while he was Pentagon chief.
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Crested Butte
Callaway
Ralph Walton
Walton
Mount Crested Butte
Colo
Army
Howard “Bo” Callaway
Colorado Rockies
Crested
Silver Streak Filming Stumbels on Route Across Canada
Los Angeles sent film makers upset as the 20th Century Fox drama Silver Streak shoots an L A to Chicago run via the Canadian Rockies. Director Arthur Hiller blasts shooting abroad to keep production in the U S. The plot involves intrigue and murder on a crack train ending in a runaway engine crash in Chicago.
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Amtrak
Canada
Hiller
Edmonton
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Los Angeles Union Station
Chicago
Calgary
Toronto
Burbank
Lockheed Aircraft
al Sweeney
Lockheed
Gene Wilder
Jill Clayburgh
Richard Pryor
Patrick McGoohan
Ray Walton
Ned Beatty
Fox
Los Angeles
Canadian Rockies
20Th Century-Fox
Arthur Hiller
Chicago Terminal
Santa Fe
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By Bryan Miller
Washington
Jimmy Carter
Andy Warhol
Jacob Lawrence
Roy Lichtenstein
Robert Rauschenberg
Jamie Wyeth
Warhol
New York
Lichenstein
Southampton
N.Y
Lawrence
Seattle
Rauschenberg
Florida
Wyeth
Andrew Wyeth
Chadds Ford
J. Paul Getty
Gordon Peter Getty
Jean Ronald Getty
Getty
Superior Court
Neal Lake
Jesus
Earth
Conference Board
Captain
Crooks
McKee
Peoria
Illinois
Tony Burton
Jane McCurry
Star Show
DeWayne Jess
Ted Movs Mate King
Sam Laws
Alvin Childress
Ken Foree
Car Gordon
George Washington
Butler’s
Gilmore Locker
Wellington
By Bob Thomas
Memphis, Texas
Charles Bronson
Jill Ireland
RAND
GI Roy “Tin
Piailiaice
Rar le OY
Parker
Floor Company
Builders Supply
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