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Another brave firm has joined the everlasting battle to save the streets around the Square from an eternal traffic jam...
...figured it was getting an overdose. Of the 12,000 hotel rooms in the city, 8,000 are permanently rented to the strangers; housing conditions are so overcrowded that often as many as 15 pieds-noirs live in the same small apartment. Midtown Marseille has become one huge traffic jam as 800 pied-noir cars arrive from Algeria daily; and the newcomers have an irksome habit of breaking the city's antinoise ordinance by honking the five notes Al-gér-ie Fran-çaise on their car horns. Many angry parents have discovered that the hordes...
...Music. Highlight of Liston's day is his public afternoon workout−as smoothly organized as a Broadway musical. The air is heavy with tension and dank with sweat; fans jam the 100-seat outdoor bleachers (at $1 a seat), and rock 'n' roll blares from a portable phonograph. Precisely at 2:30 p.m., Liston announces his arrival with an electrifying rat-a-tat on the lightweight "speed bag." He begins to shadowbox, sliding lithely about the ring, huge fists darting out at imaginary opponents. "Time!" calls a handler, and Liston begins to whale away in earnest...
Damnedest Jam. At each of the 92 vaccination centers, Boy Scouts put the sugar cubes into paper cups. Pharmacists doused the sugar with three drops of vaccine. As the vaccine ran low, ambulances (many donated by undertakers) with sirens screaming struggled through clogged streets to deliver fresh supplies. Said one cop: "It is the damnedest traffic jam I've ever seen, but nobody's mad." In the carnival atmosphere, pitchmen picked up many a rapid dollar peddling balloons to kids. "Is this American or Cuban sugar?" asked one apprehensive citizen. Assured the U.S. was buying no sugar from...
...that is both sad and hilarious, wondrously nonsensical, and yet vividly relevant to a century from which most of the solid Victorian absolutes of Truth, Goodness and Progress have faded like the Cheshire Cat. There is no more devastating comment on Marxist myth than the White Queen's "Jam tomorrow and jam yesterday-but never jam today." In his wildest escapades, whether hunting the Snark ("They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care:/They pursued it with forks and hope;") or playing croquet with flamingos as mallets and hedgehogs as balls, the moral of the mythology...