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Melvin J. Lasky, a London-based co-editor of Encounter, believes that "London is the only European metropolis that has managed to maintain a combination of greenness and greyness, vitality and yet a certain gentleness. Paris hasn't got it. Rome is oppressive, Berlin is a special case. And all the others are villages." London's pressures are less than in many big cities, and it manages to maintain an ease, a coziness and a mixture of its different social circles that totally eludes New York. The result, as Manhattan-born Richard Adler, editor of London...
Dazzling Gems. To the lively Londoner, no explanations are really necessary. Talking the flip jargon that has become basic English for teenagers, jet setters and indeed any knowledgeable adult striving to maintain the illusion that he is at least young in heart, the switched-on London bird or beatle calls his urb "super," "fab," "groovy," "gear," "close" or "with it." "Ready, steady, go. There's a Whole Scene Going," chirps Cathy McGowan, 22, moderator on ITV's Ready, Steady Go show and London's favorite "dolly" of the moment, doing a deliberate "sendup" (takeoff) on the title...
...lights, which will blaze from about an hour before sunset to an hour before sunrise, were installed by the Cambridge Electric Company, and will cost the M.D.C. about $500 per year to maintain. They may cost some unwary frisbee player a cracked skull...
Critics of an alternative service proposal refuse to challenge the obvious advantages of the revision, preferring to base their opposition on the grounds that the move would damage the Peace Corps itself. They argue that the effectiveness of the Peace Corps, as a voluntary organization, depends on maintaining its volunteer status and elan; and maintain that if the Peace Corps were made an alternative to the draft, its unique character would be threatened. Some even contend that the extra trouble and expanse of processing the thousands of additional applications that would come in would make the program unfeasible...
Eurofinance men pore over speeches, annual reports, newspaper stories and miscellany for clues to corporate activity, maintain 10,000 files on British and Continental companies. The firm's 20 analysts and four economists, most of whom hold doctorates and speak three or four languages, piece together all the items they can find on a company being surveyed, spend up to six months preparing a preliminary report. When this work is done, they take their findings to the company for comment-and usually hit so close that the company is impressed enough to cooperate. Says Hungarian-born Deputy Director Anthony...