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...pals began telling him about the good things on the other side of the Iron Curtain, Sasha's allegiance to the Young Communist League began to falter. He went to the Black Sea resort of Yalta, where he buttonholed foreign tourists for more information and begged for fountain pens and cigarette lighters...
...girl abandoned by her heartless father in the lobby of a gambling casino; abandoned without a Mr. Goodbar to her name, without so much as a nickel for a Nab in her pretty little purple plastic pocketbook; abandoned in a lobby without a Coke machine, without a drinking fountain, without even a television set-and only seven minutes left till Huckleberry Hound...
...million steel mill in Malaya. Matsushita Electric has started a battery plant in Thailand and an assembly plant for transistor radios and TV sets on Formosa. Japanese companies run a department store in Hong Kong and a toothpaste factory in Malaya, make gasoline rickshas in Pakistan and fountain pens in India. Altogether, no Japanese companies have moved into Southeast Asia...
...Brussels was the scene of another indignity last week when student pranksters during a blizzard kidnaped the legendary statue of Mannckcn-Pis from its fountain near city hall. When police later recovered it, a Brussels councilor described the indelicate statue as the city's "most cherished patrimony...
...decay, Antonioni seems to say, in all around I see. A nurse wheels a baby carriage down a street. An old man watches it with haunted eyes. Headlines threaten atomic destruction. Water leaks from a barrel, runs into a sewer and is seen no more. In a park a fountain suddenly fails. The day fails. In the darkness a single street lamp burns, far away and cold. Then suddenly the lamp burns in the center of the screen, immense and pulsing, urgent, the light of life, the only life a human being has and will ever have. It goes...