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...three months before he was due to graduate, and, in all, was arrested eight times by the British, serving a total of nine years in jail. In 1932, when police refused to let Indian nationalists hoist their flag on the clock tower of Allahabad, he rode by in a cart, disguised in the veils of a Moslem woman, suddenly leaped off and sprinted up the tower stairs, raising the flag before the police could stop...
...elegant agora of the new suburbia, the font of everything from Kix to Cheer, and the source of no small amount of corn - including the gag about the housewife whose shopping cart does $40 an hour. The American housewife thinks nothing of spending an average $1,200 a year in the super market. Altogether, U.S. food stores do a $60 billion-a-year business, as much as the steel and auto industries wrapped together...
Though they balked until a plane was actually warming up to cart them off into exile, King Saud's five rebellious sons finally kissed Feisal's hand in submission last week. Their capitulation may ease family pressure to banish Saud himself. Meanwhile Feisal, whose reforms in the past 18 months have disarmed the regime's Nasserite opposition, found his hand greatly strengthened. In an interview with an Arab journalist at the Saudi capital of Riyadh, the relaxed Regent even hinted that he plans to lead the country to true constitutional monarchy...
...vice presidents with younger men, but kept up the firm's traditions: no smoking or coffee drinking in the offices, men separated from women in the company cafeterias. On weekends, Cunningham likes to pop into K-Marts unannounced. While he chats with managers, his wife pushes a shopping cart-thus faithfully reinvesting some of his $100,000 salary...
...prime example is The Silence, Bergman's latest failure. Looking only at the composition, and hearing only the natural sound effects, Bergman's virtuosity is awe-inspiring. The man plans every single element which enters the camera's field: nothing is superfluous. A horse cart moves slowly down a street and white-roofed cars pass it regularly, creating a subtle montage. Scene after scene of such frame making constitutes a first-class lesson in cinema as graphic...