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...Iceland, clung stubbornly to the left-an arbitrary attitude that dated back to an 18th century royal decree for mail coaches. But despite tradition, Swedes could hardly help noticing that neither their own motoring reflexes nor those of visitors from right-hand countries changed at the border. Foreigners kept getting into dangerous difficulties on Swedish roads, and the travel prone Swedes were getting into too many needless accidents abroad. Besides, driving Swedish cars in Sweden was a problem in itself. Because the first cars in Sweden were left-hand-drive imports, Swedish automakers also put left-hand steering...
Tack, the course a boat is pursuing in terms of the direction from which the wind hits her bow (a boat is on starboard tack if the wind is blowing from the right-hand side, a port tack if from the left-hand side). To tack is to change course while sailing into the wind...
There are 30,000 such "irresistible" facts in this guide to "the events and achievements in every walk of life of the past two centuries." British Historian Neville Williams, 43, marshals his towering topics as well as his trivia very neatly. On the left-hand pages, political and international events are listed year by year, month by month; on the right-hand pages are achievements in the arts, sciences and everything else...
...JAZZ PIANO (RCA Victor). Half a dozen pianists take the stage at the Pittsburgh Jazz Festival to give a fine, festive survey of their art. The course starts with Contrary Motion, played by Willie "The Lion" Smith, professor emeritus of the bouncing left-hand "stride" piano, which Duke Ellington gracefully imitates in his impressionistic Second Portrait of the Lion. Starting out ever so simply in Somehow, Earl "Fatha" Hines soon fills all the spaces with increasingly intricate trills and runs. Most emotionally eloquent of the lot, Mary Lou Williams plays 45° Angle and Joycie with declarative force and powerful...
Hoeppner's morale-boosting goal started with a corner kick by Robertson. Andy Kydes and Jim Saltonstall both took swipes at the loose ball in the penalty area before Hoeppner got his shot, a shot which hit a Lion defender and rebounded barely over the goal line in the left-hand corner...