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Speakers included Sen. Allen Cranston (D-Cal.), Leman Brightman, one of the originators of the "Longest Walk," and Philip Deer, a leader of the Muscoke tribe in California...

Author: By Patricia A. Wathen, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Indians Stage March on Capitol Hill | 7/18/1978 | See Source »

...demonstration was one of a series of events that began with the arrival in Washington of participants in the Indians' "Longest Walk" on Saturday...

Author: By Patricia A. Wathen, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Indians Stage March on Capitol Hill | 7/18/1978 | See Source »

...Longest Walk" began on Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay on February 11. Twenty-nine demonstrators, including one 94-year-old native American and several Japanese Buddhist monks, completed the entire march from California to Washington...

Author: By Patricia A. Wathen, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Indians Stage March on Capitol Hill | 7/18/1978 | See Source »

...years ago when Queen Elizabeth's sister, Princess Margaret, wound up British royalty's longest romantic melodrama since the days of Edward VIII and Wallis ("the woman I love") Simpson by dropping her hopes of marrying Group Captain Peter Townsend. For all of his qualifications as a royal spouse, the dashing Battle of Britain hero had that fatal divorce in his background. So Britons were doubly cheered when, five years later at 29, the willful Meg finally made it to the altar, this time with Antony Armstrong-Jones, the arty son of a Welsh barrister and a promising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITAIN: Ending a Royal Marriage | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...hardy competitors who try the toughest slalom must find a way of getting through 20, which are often devilishly placed in the most treacherous spots in the Hudson. Anyone hitting a gate suffers penalty points; anyone missing one then and there loses just about any chance of winning. The longest slalom race is 1.5 miles. The "downriver" runs for 7½ miles, and is purely a speed and endurance event. The only contestants to get a break are the matures; they can have as much as 10% subtracted from their times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: White Water Rites of Spring | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

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