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...ordinary crowd material. They mill around the closed-circuit TV's, the long rows of betting windows, the beer and hot dog stands. They wander back and forth eating popcorn, spilling out to the open-air section by the track, crowding against the rail at the finish wire. Some flourish fistfuls of money, looking like scarecrows stuffed with green straw...
...country can bury a man with greater pomp and flourish than Britain. Yet all the trappings of power were absent last week at the funeral of Earl Attlee, Britain's Prime Minister from 1945 to 1951: there were no honor guards or artillery caissons, no press or television, no crush of spectators. Only 150 invited friends and relatives gathered in London's historic Temple Church for a brief Anglican ceremony in honor of the man who had shaped the political destiny of postwar Britain. Though his ashes later will be interred in Westminster Abbey, the simple funeral fitted...
...right sooner than he thought; he was forthwith fired from his post as an alternate member of the union's central committee and roundly denounced by the government. Czechoslovakia's Communist regime, which for a time was Eastern Europe's most tolerant in permitting liberalization to flourish, has recently returned to a pattern of repression. It is preparing not only to discipline Czechoslovakia's "unruly" writers, but also to take back a good deal of what it has conceded in other fields as well. In one of his harshest speeches in years, President Antonin Novotny recently...
...threat of a strike was not so immediate, officials cheerfully predicted 1968-model sales of over 9,000,000 cars, up from an estimated 8,600,000 during the current model year. And throughout the industry, automakers went about introducing their new models (see following story) with the usual flourish...
...Brecht left some extraneous, aborted lines of action in the play and even more half-hearted speeches elucidating motivation, which rightfully enough is an obscene word in a play which is a succession of naked images. Garga has a mother who accomplishes nothing and then leaves in a pointless flourish. And he has a sister copied out of Dostoyevsky, played by Carrie Rose as a perverted Chekhov ingenue...