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...with big names (Jane Wyman, Richard Egan, Adolphe Menjou. Karl Malden, Agnes Moorehead. Donald Crisp, Nancy Olson), and generally calculated its gasps and sniffles, homilies and heehaws with such shrewdness that Pollyanna emerges on the wide screen as the best live-actor movie Disney has ever made: a Niagara of drivel and a masterpiece of smarm...
Nationalities often have their own favorite sights. Britons frequently want colonial Williamsburg included in their tours, and try to track down tidewater plantations that once belonged to ancestors. Most Italian tourists head first for Niagara Falls, which outdo the fountains of Tivoli in splash. One of the favorite U.S. cities for overseas visitors is Chicago. Chicagoans like to think that their industry and brisk way of life are the attraction, but the visitors are actually drawn by a romantic conviction that Chicago is the heart of U.S. gangsterism...
...laboratory assistant. The young doctors and interns gave her a merry social life, and she tried to save money for the longed-for education. After two years, the call of college became irresistible, and Pat collected her bus ticket and went back to Los Angeles (by way of Niagara Falls, at no extra charge). Bill and Tom made room for her in their tiny apartment near the University of Southern California. One morning Tom Ryan took Pat to the U.S.C. job-placement office. "This is my kid sister," he said. "Can she work her way through college...
...success story in Canada this year is the tale of the 120-mile rim of rolling land that hugs the western shore of Lake Ontario from Oshawa to Niagara Falls. One out of every seven Canadians now lives there. They produce-in 6,700 factories ranging from Ford's assembly line at Oakville (Canada's largest factory, with a capacity of 140,000 cars a year) to tailoring shops in Toronto-more than $6.7 billion worth of goods a year, 29% of the nation's manufacturing output. They mail one of every four letters in Canada...
...gone into the horseshoe's erratic growth. While Toronto is a pretty, leafy city, most of the others are depressingly ugly, and Chairman Frederick Gardiner of the Toronto Metropolitan Council warns that by 1975 the area will be a "wilderness," consisting of "one solid city from Oshawa to Niagara Falls." Whether wilderness or wonderland, the horseshoe seems sure of even more development. Last year Oshawa (pop. 58,000) made its first efforts at locating a new factory or two, got six. Says its Industrial Development Commissioner:"All we have to do is let companies know we exist...