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...clauses of the constitution, banned strikes and all public gatherings, imposed censorship on the press, closed schools, banks and stores, did away with the need for search warrants and set up special military courts to try violators. Troops patrolled the streets with orders to shoot anyone who broke the dusk-to-dawn curfew. The seizure was such a model of military precision that no one had time to organize a protest. Despite some rumors of shooting in Athens and Salonica, the coup was virtually bloodless...
While West German cities glisten with activity and night life, the workers' paradise next door seems to be like most paradises: merely dull. Its cities die at dusk, and those of its citizens who venture forth show on their faces the ennui, the boredom, of people who are constantly subjected to ideological blasts. East Germany's 40 daily newspapers are full of cant and propaganda, and even an annual folk fair has to be called a "Festival of Creative Socialism." Its intellectual life is almost totally noncreative, since voices that speak or hands that write with less than...
...Columbia University philosophy major, 24-year-old Julie Motz, has set herself up in business making 20-minute-long, 16-mm. BioPix. For $500, she will follow her subject (a Texas brewery president, say, or a New Jersey American Legionnaire), shooting candidly and in color from dawn to dusk. So far she has been banned only from Manhattan's "21" Club ("It bothered the other customers"), had to sneak in shots at the Forum of the Twelve Caesars after hours...
...dangers, the satisfactions continue to lure traffic watchers aloft. "This is one job where you can see the results of your work," says Kevin O'Keefe of Boston's WHDH. "At dusk, when I suggest that motorists turn their lights on, it looks like a Christmas tree lighting up down there...
...something on his own and the attractive offer from Newsday (reportedly $100,000 a year, no stock, but full editorial control of the paper when Guggenheim dies). One weekend, the two rambled together over Johnson's Texas ranch for several hours; when they returned to the house at dusk, the President told Moyers that he should take the job. Moyers still brooded about his departure; just a day or so before he announced his decision, he offered to stay, but Johnson refused to consider this. In New York, Moyers, who gets along well with Bobby Kennedy, will undoubtedly have...