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...strolled the streets with their families, or gathered at cafes to drink cider or the red wine of Leon and eat chorizos, the popular peppered sausages. Many listened to Radio Espafia Independiente. the Communist transmitter that spews its anti-Franco propaganda from Prague. Czechoslovakia (featuring La Pasionaria. legendary Red amazon of the Civil War). Since Franco's own press and radio were suppressing the whole matter. Prague was the only Spanish-language source of news about the spreading strikes in other parts of Spain: thousands of shipbuilders and metal workers in Bilbao, many more in Barcelona...
Certain actors deserve much better than this show. David Rawle's Mama Tia, for example, proves overpoweringly that men can do anything better than women. Mama Tia has a great Amazon's body and a Tallulah Bankhead voice, and watching her bump and grind out a twisty number called "Razzle-Dazzle" is clearly the evening's treat. Rawle's voice, his enormous toothy smile, and his big cynical eyelids allow him to deliver the flattest sort of lines in a devastatingly funny manner; and he props up whole scenes simply by his presence...
...Amazon. Teacher Pryor, assistant principal at James Couzens Elementary School, got the idea for the nursery in 1959. when the Ford Foundation picked his school as part of the Great Cities School Improvement Program to cut down school dropouts. Pryor milked $2,500 from Ford and the Detroit board of education, got permission to launch the nursery at Couzens on his own time after school. Circulating leaflets in the housing project, he sold the parents of 20 three-year-olds with his message: "Now is the time to help your child be a good student...
...about the room. The difference is that Pryor's kids are in a brave new world. Used to monosyllabic conversation at home, they hear grownups speaking clearly and concretely for the first time. For them, field trips to farms outside Detroit are as exotic as journeys up the Amazon...
...recent months photographers have followed missionaries in the Amazon jungles and in the Arctic for TIME, have flown over and photographed the engineering beauty of the American Road, and captured the delight of children witnessing in Manhattan's Central Park a new zoo devoted to children. Many magazines, of course (though no other newsmagazine), send their photographers to faraway places. But TIME's purpose is different from most: it seeks to add a new dimension to news coverage by the use of color. Thus TIME's eight pages of color in August on Southeast Asia showed...