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...York City ferryboat became a Mississippi stern-wheeler for a day -tootling its way up the Hudson River to the infectious quicksteps of three Dixieland jazz bands. A ballroom at the Commodore Hotel seemed to go through a time warp to the 1930s, as kids in jeans and matrons in long gowns bobbed, swayed and shuffled to the strains of Count Basic and Sy Oliver...
That inevitability has not quashed the passions of antiMarket Britons. Last week a determined group of them boarded the ferryboat Invicta at Dover and sailed across the English Channel to Calais to demonstrate against Britain's entry into the Common Market. The police were sanguine when the demonstrators unfurled banners reading "L'Entente Cordiale mais pas un mariage." But when they began to shout "Down with Pompidou!" French flics rushed aboard the ferry, tossed the banners overboard and reportedly roughed up some of the passengers...
...Golden Gate Bridge was opened in 1937 after years of haggling with San Francisco Bay ferryboat owners and skeptics who said that it could not be done. At first, traffic was so light that some toll collectors on the graveyard shift set garbage-can lids in the approach lanes to warn themselves of oncoming vehicles. But business soon picked up, and now runs to 33 million vehicles a year. The bridge has attracted more than cars. It gained an unfortunate reputation as one of America's most melodramatic suicide sites. Last week a 65-year-old woman became...
With increasing envy and bitterness, Polish citizens have noted the different situations in neighboring lands. Hungary, for example, has been making steady progress with a "New Economic Mechanism" that introduced capitalistic profit-and-loss into socialist planning. Gdansk, the former German city of Danzig, is only a short ferryboat ride from Swedish Malmo across the Baltic, and is regularly invaded by fun-loving Swedes seeking beaches, booze and beaming blondes who are a soft touch for hard currency. West Germans are so obviously affluent that Poles ask one another sarcastically which of the two nations lost World War II. Never...
...fact that the new service does not yet have direct railway links to either London or Paris. The British Railways Board, which operates the crossings, hopes to eliminate most of the kinks in the next few months. Despite an adult fare of $8.40, compared with $6.24 for a regular ferryboat, most of last week's travelers seemed more than satisfied...