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...search of pleasure, polish, or the splendors of Palladian architecture, young Englishmen, usually with tutors, infested Europe for three centuries. With well-chosen pictures and pungent quotations from travelers (including Diarist John Evelyn, Tobias Smollett and Edward Gibbon), this book gives a remarkably funny and extremely revealing country-by-coun-try account of Albion's impact upon the Continent-and incontinent...
...sprightly as the daffodil, as delicate as the carnation, as aggressive as the petunia, as ubiquitous as the violet and as stately as the snapdragon." He was one of the last national politicians who dared allow his eyes to mist when he spoke of the "fa-lag" and "coun-tray," and, in a way, the emotion was genuine...
...been a steady climb to this peak for John R. Cash, 37. A solid coun-try-and-western success since 1955, he has occasionally crossed the boundaries and sold to the wider pop audience (Ring of Fire, I'll Walk the Line). He was rediscovered by the public at large last year when his At Folsom Prison climbed to the top of the charts and sold over 1,000,000 albums. In 1968, he made $2,000,000, and this year things look even better...
...Administration's antipoverty programs rather than cancel them wholesale. As New York's liberal Senator Jacob Javits observed, the message was far more important for its "positive approach and tone than for the rel atively few organization changes it makes." It was also a tribute to the coun sel of Nixon's chief adviser on urban affairs, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, whose persuasive voice was largely responsible for the President's early - and forceful -guarantee that the subject of poverty will get "priority attention...
...regime has now sent thousands of "Mao Tse-tung's Thought Propaganda Teams" into the countryside. Kwangtung province alone has mobilized 50,000 industrial workers and 280,000 peasants for the heroic propaganda and purification push, or, as Peking labels it, the "purification of class ranks in the coun tryside." In effect, the campaign her alds the official wind-down of the Cultural Revolution, a finale that is to climax in "all-round victory...