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...City of Angels used to be a place where culture feared to tread. But to day the traffic slowing down to neck-crane along Wilshire Boulevard is not looking for stars but admiring the shimmering complex of pavilions surrounded by a moatlike reflecting pool of vastly more substance and value than was ever to be seen in a DeMille superset. Only four months after the opening of its new Music Center, which packs pews each evening, the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art opens this week, making Los Angeles the artistic capital of the U.S. West...
...last week. Down the wide, snowy boulevard poured thousands of students singing the Internationale and screaming curses of protest against the U.S. air raids on North Viet Nam. Tipped off in advance, the embassy had called on the authorities for protection. As a result, 600 police were on the scene. But the cops did little to stop the mob from bursting through the cordon, vaulting a metal barrier, and scrambling over an improvised rampart of 30 snowplows...
...keep others from having them." For a year she played at the prestigious Théâtre National Populaire, where her roles placed her opposite such celebrated actors as Gérard Philipe and Robert Hirsch. Then, on Philipe's advice, she took a role in a boulevard production of The Dazzling Hour. On her second night, the show's star fell ill and Jeanne was asked to play her role. Jeanne learned the new part overnight, and the next evening, since the two characters were never onstage at the same moment, she appeared in both roles, alternating...
Noonday at "Pali." One anthropologically absorbing place to watch these characteristics in interplay is the wall-less, roofed area for cafeteria tables at Pacific Palisades High School, bordering on Sunset Boulevard. "Pali," as the kids call it, is a new, $7,000,000, red brick campus lor 2,100 upper-middle-class students. "These are the students' cars," says English Teacher Jeanne Hernandez, pointing to a fast collection of "wheels" ranging up to Jags, "and there are the teachers' cars," pointing to a sedate group of compacts and the like. "It's so lush here that...
...that the trees along the Charles are "certainly not the typical American sycamore, which is found in the Midwestern United States but which is uncommon in the East." He said they were probably specimens of the "London plane tree, which has been widely planted in the East as a boulevard tree...