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...goes down, he faces ignominy or worse. The camp's doctor is busy assembling a harem of pseudo nurses. The camp's foundrymen are lured on to melt bronze by the promise of a bonus. They are cheated out of it. A doomed love blooms like a flower held in the outthrust hand of a tragic Charlie Chaplin...
...landing on the moon, but their equipment at the time was relatively primitive-a simple sphere covered with balsa wood that was ejected just before its carrier rocket smashed into the lunar surface. After bouncing and rolling to a stop, the sphere unfolded its panels like petals of a flower, righted itself and exposed its TV camera and transmitter. Luna 16 was a far more sophisticated instrument. Although the Soviets revealed few details, Western space experts believe that the spacecraft that descended to the lunar surface weighed about a ton (compared with the Apollo LM's 8 tons...
...employer also provides a plenitude of sports and recreational facilities-swimming pools, meeting halls, tennis courts, golf courses, baseball diamonds and rugby fields. Hundreds come out to cheer the Toyota teams in competition with those of other companies. Classes are offered in flower arranging, sumo wrestling, water skiing, skating, weight lifting, squash and judo. A worker or his wife can learn to play a guitar and join a company band. For vacationing employees, Toyota maintains a string of mountain and seaside resorts, which charge about $1.40 a day, including food. These benefits are motivated less by union pressure than...
Monterey Pop. Davis stumbled on this new source of Columbia's prosperity almost by accident. In May 1967, he attended the Monterey Pop Festival in California because one of Columbia's groups was playing there. "It was the first meeting place for the flower children," he recalls, "and I was very impressed with the whole youth revolution that I saw there. The kids went crazy. It was the start of the group era and of a whole new kind of innovative music. It changed the nature of my career...
...outcome did support Thieu's claim that his government had conducted honest elections. The voting was largely peaceful, as 65% of the 6,600,000 eligible voters trooped to the polls. The candidates on the two top tickets, plus the members of the third-place, independent "Lily Flower" slate, will fill 30 vacancies in the 60-member Senate...