Sunday,  August 12, 2012 • Vol. 13--No. 029 • 34 of 36 •  Other Editions

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• Spice Girls, The Who, Muse among British pop stars drawing Olympics to a rollicking close
• LONDON (AP) -- Party! Party! Party!
• London is preparing to close out a two-week festival of sports in Olympic style, with a thunderous celebration of British music, from the classical compositions of Elgar to the classic rock of The Who.
• A star-studded closing ceremony Sunday night will be long on fun -- a dancing, stomping, psychedelic exaltation of what Britain does best, exporting a head-shaking amount of talent to the world.

• The spectacle, which artistic director Kim Gavin promises will be "the best after-show party that's ever been," will have something for everyone -- the Spice Girls, George Michael, Annie Lennox, Muse and many, many other stars mixed in.
• There'll be plenty of fireworks and colored lights, acrobats, gymnasts, drummers, supermodels and other surprises to keep the crowd -- and a television audience of tens of millions -- entertained late into the night.
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Today in History
The Associated Press

• Today is Sunday, Aug. 12, the 225th day of 2012. There are 141 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Aug. 12, 1912, comedy producer Mack Sennett founded the Keystone Pictures Studio in Edendale, Calif.
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• On this date:
• In 1867, President Andrew Johnson sparked a move to impeach him as he defied Congress by suspending Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton.
• In 1898, fighting in the Spanish-American War came to an end.
• In 1902, International Harvester Co. was formed by a merger of McCormick Harvesting Machine Co., Deering Harvester Co. and several other manufacturers.
• In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt nominated Hugo Black to the U.S. Supreme Court.
• In 1944, during World War II, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., eldest son of Joseph and

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