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Married. Nancy Kwan, 31, sloe-eyed Eurasian actress who soared to stardom in The World of Susie Wong and Flower Drum Song; and David Giler, 26, Hollywood scriptwriter, whose most recent credit, if that is the term, is Myra Breckinridge; she for the second time, he for the first; in a civil ceremony in Carson City...
...strike is doomed to failure, and small wonder. James chases after Linda until there is little time left for political ideas. Finally the cops wade in heavily with tear gas, and the kids, all neatly assembled on the floor in an intricate and improbable circular flower design, are soundly beaten and busted. Although this is the strongest scene in a lackluster film, it will vastly amuse any one who has ever been gassed. The film shows the kids sitting for minutes while great billows of gas waft around them. They cough, but they do not move, a feat that...
...sense of humor, the Pixies established "people's departments" to handle a whole range of services. To protest air pollution, the Pixies' Environment Department stopped traffic by staging smiling street sit-ins -but only on Saturday afternoons when families go shopping in their cars. They introduced cartop flower boxes to beautify parking lots. Their Housing Department seized empty buildings, scrubbed them clean and opened them to some of the city's 15,000 homeless. They organized an Old-Age Department, offering lonely pensioners free services like shopping, painting or just chatting; no fewer than 350 old Amsterdamers...
...first manned nighttime launch by either the Soviet Union or the U.S. The Russians also gave wide publicity to the shot, releasing films of Soyuz atop a Vostok rocket on its prd shortly before launch. One photograph showed three service towers retracted like the unfolded petals of a gigantic flower...
...enough places at the head tables. Some feathers were ruffled as 15 ladies had to step down to dine at the floor-level tables. But all proceeded smoothly again through the ceremonies, when officers presented four $1,000 scholarships, Smokey Bear awards, an anti-litter trophy, and the flower arrangements and horticultural prizes...