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...usual, the week began with football; pro games from coast to coast cluttered the autumn Sunday. Then, with athletic diversions out of the way, television turned to the week's news.' And inevitably, the major preoccupation was with varying aspects of violence. There were films of angry student unrest from Madrid to Manhattan, and the most familiar dialogue the viewer heard came from policemen ordering antidraft demonstrators to "Move! Move faster...
Compare an imaginary middle-class Mr. U.S. in 1917 with his counterpart today. After breakfast cooked on a cast-iron stove, Mr. U.S. of 1917 wrapped himself against the early autumn chill, went out to his open Model T, hand-cranked the engine into ear-splitting action, and headed for the office at the blazing 15 m.p.h. demanded by the bumpy, unpaved road. Back at the house, his wife kneaded the dough for the day's bread, then took soap and dishcloth to wash the Mason jars in which she was about to preserve apple butter. When she hurried...
...they savored their longest holiday ever from the rigors of socialist labor: four days. They attended dinners in restaurants and homes and shopped for luxuries especially imported for the occasion, including British tweeds, Italian shoes and Japanese transistor radios. In Moscow, they rose early to find a crisp, sunny autumn day for the anniversary, were soon milling in Red Square wearing their holiday best. Everywhere in the parks and squares, Muscovites danced and sang. At night, as celebrators floated down the Moscow River in barges, searchlights illuminated a giant balloon bearing a portrait of Lenin in the skies above. About...
These cool autumn days, Harold Wilson is a Prime Minister in search of a scapegoat. His standing has suffered a steady erosion, as illustrated last week by the loss of two historically safe Labor seats in three by-elections. His Foreign Secretary, George Brown, has proved a recurring source of embarrassment, as he did again by rudely accusing Sunday Times Publisher Lord Thomson of "great disservice to the country." Common Market entry seems as distant as ever; Charles de Gaulle has just hinted that he will veto Britain once more. No wonder Wilson was looking for a political diversion. Last...
...price of canned fruit is going up in supermarkets throughout the U.S. Reason: California, which produces 40% of the U.S.'s fruit, had a wet, cold, late spring that has resulted in a disastrous autumn...