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...price restraints. Burns also urged restoration of a Cost of Living Council shorn of enforcement powers but able to bring the pressure of public opinion on corporations and unions seeking exorbitant increases. Such proposals run directly counter to the views of the President, who is opposed to even the mildest Government intervention to moderate wage-price boosts...
...delayed planting and may well bring a disappointingly small harvest. Rainy Britain, on the other hand, has suffered from uncharacteristic dry spells the past few springs. A series of unusually cold winters has gripped the American Far West, while New England and northern Europe have recently experienced the mildest winters within anyone's recollection...
...like to leave it alone," said a Northwestern University official. "After all, it's springtime." At the University of Georgia, officials decided that the school's policy toward streaking would be "noninterference." In Maine, the Portland Press Herald chided streakers for wearing shoes during one of the mildest Maine winters on record. "We are not opposed to streaking provided it is correctly undertaken and executed with some grace," the paper editorialized. "If you streak, have the common decency to do it in your bare feet...
Burly Crew. Despite the crush at the Guard, fights rarely erupt. A burly crew of five bouncers keeps order, ousting patrons who utter even the mildest of profanities. Hookers are immediately booted out. A strict dress code outlaws Levi's, tank tops and cutoffs. These rules apparently appeal to the clientele that seeks out the club: a conservatively dressed crowd of nurses and schoolteachers, pilots, salesmen and junior executives...
This was perhaps one of the mildest provocations Visconti has offered the festival and the city itself: his latest Ludwig is a disaster excused only by reports that the director's illness forced its completion by a substitute, and Death in Venice, the films, which first marked Visconti's decline from films about decadence into decadent films, was most of all an insult to the city whose landscape and legend he abused...