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Even the world's supposedly greatest metropolis has lately begun to sound like one of those boosteristic burgs that Sinclair Lewis used to deride. There was a day when New York City was so smug, haughty and complacent about its firstness that Author Irvin Cobb thought the place possessed "absolutely not a trace of local pride." Yet in the 1970s, the Big Apple, as the city now cutely calls itself, has been larding the air waves so much with a treacly, self-addressed valentine of a song ("I love New Yorrrrrrrrrrk!") that even a tone-deaf statistician might wonder...
...danger of more civil war seems greatest in El Salvador, the Western Hemisphere's most densely populated country, where 5.3 million people are crowded into an area no larger than Massachusetts. The government of President Carlos Humberto Romero has been locked in combat with three well-organized bands of leftist terrorists. One such group, the Armed Forces of National Resistance, has raised $40 million in the past two years by kidnaping foreign executives and holding them for ransom. Even more threatening from the government's standpoint is the widespread support won by the 70,000-member Popular Revolutionary...
...Yankees will retire his number 15 and place a plaque in his honor on the centerfield wall. But perhaps the greatest tribute of all came from 51,151 fans in Yankee Stadium, who cheered his memory for ten minutes before the team's first game without...
...Pierre Léaud-one of Agee's "perfect people"-found the full range of adolescent feeling in The 400 Blows. The roots of the performance could be traced to Jean Vigo, whose Zero for Conduct (1933), made with no professional kids, is still the screen's greatest poem to youthful anarchy. The 400 Blows exerted a strong influence on George Roy Hill, who in 1964 made The World of Henry Orient, which is about two lovesick Manhattan schoolgirls. As Merrie Spaeth and Tippy Walker scrambled across the city, energized but unaffected, they seemed all that could...
...greatest contribution to civilization in this century may well be air conditioning-and America leads the way." So wrote British Scholar-Politician S.F. Markham 32 years ago when a modern cooling system was still an exotic luxury. In a century that has yielded such treasures as the electric knife, spray-on deodorant and disposable diapers, anybody might question whether air conditioning is the supreme gift. There is not a whiff of doubt, however, that America is far out front in its use. As a matter of lopsided fact, the U.S. today, with a mere 5% of the population, consumes...