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...SHOP ON MAIN STREET. Humor and fantasy heighten the impact of this keen-edged Czech tragedy. In a complacent Slovakian village in 1942, a henpecked nobody (Josef Króner) befriends but ultimately betrays the doomed old Jewess (Ida Kamiñska) whose button shop is given to him by the Nazis...
...Dahomey, a running feud between the leaders of the nation's three main tribal groups had brought down two governments in three years. "I am taking over because of the incapacity of the politicians to govern," said Colonel Christophe Soglo when he brought down the third...
School Is a Ritual. In the past, Peggy's main weakness had been her tracing of the compulsory, or "school," figures, a repetitive series of "paragraphs," "rockers" and "counters" that comprises 60% of a figure skater's score (v. 40% for free skating). Davos' 5,500-seat stadium was virtually empty last week as the skaters went through the exacting ritual, tracing and retracing each figure while judges got down on their hands and knees to search for the slightest bulge in a circle or the telltale double line that proved a competitor had used (heaven forbid...
...first glance, it looked like a turning point. The Labor Department reported last week that the cost of living, having gone up during the previous four months, had finally flattened out in January. The main reason was that excise taxes on auto purchases and telephone calls had been briefly rescinded. But they will be reimposed within the next month or so, and by every expectation the cost-of-living index will head higher again. In any event, last week's flattened figure is of small solace to the U.S. housewife, who is already complaining about having...
Sanford is instinctively very much a Southerner. When he speaks of cotton fields, he also mentions Northern ghettos; he refers to the summer of 1964 to show that the problem is national, not regional. He agrees that Southerners now bear the main burden, but he also believes that acceptance will come first in the South, "where the Negro is known as an individual, rather than in the North, where, as a comparative stranger, he is often feared...