Word: berliner
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...London, N.H., or their husbands banter beside their ailing cars at Kidder's Garage, there is little talk of Muskie, McGovern or McCloskey. Instead, there are complaints over rising taxes expected from a new sewage system and the costs of operating schools. In the paper-mill town of Berlin, Kelly's Pastry Shop now sells more doughnuts (7?) than turnovers (150?, as residents worry about living costs. "It takes two working now for a family to get what it needs," notes Mrs. Laura Allain, a clerk in the shop. "Before, we could always set something aside...
...busing and welfare reform, possibly because the state has few blacks. One national issue which seems to stir lingering emotions is the war in Viet Nam-although at nowhere near the high pitch of four years ago. "This war kept a lot of younger people back," notes Alexander DuMesnil, Berlin's assistant police marshal. "My son was afraid he'd get drafted, and he still might. But the tenseness is going away-he's getting ready to buy a car." Bob Kohler, a Viet Nam veteran at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, protests quietly that...
Some residents express downright hostility toward the candidates. "These politicians, what do they care about us?" asks Berlin's DuMesnil. "The only time we see them is when they're looking for a few votes." At a high school assembly in Milford, a student opened the questioning of Democratic Senator Vance Hartke by asking: "Senator, do you think students should be forced to come to these political rallies?" Hartke said no-and the student promptly walked out. As polltakers, reporters and canvassers for the candidates keep probing the voters, resentment is growing. "The people are getting tired...
After traveling through the state from Peterboro to Hampton and from Milford to Berlin, TIME Correspondent John Stacks finds that much of the intense campaigning is "out of joint with the reserved, modest and altogether sensible views of New Hampshirites about what the primary can mean to them. The New Hampshire contest is a minuet conducted by the press and the politicians. It means more to both those groups than to the people of New Hampshire...
Sally's antic and readily available charms are sampled by a young Englishman called Brian Roberts (Michael York), who is in Berlin to study for a doctorate in philosophy. What he gets instead is a seminar in lowlife and a confrontation with his own repressed homosexuality. His tutor in the latter is a baron named Max (Helmut Griem), who has also passed a few nights with Sally. "Screw Max!" exclaims an exas perated Brian one day. "I do," replies Sally. "So," says Brian, "do I." This complicates matters, since Sally and Brian are in love and Sally is pregnant...