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...those who suffer from gephyrophobia - fear of bridges - the alumi num-painted, 2,235-ft. span between Kanauga, Ohio, and Point Pleasant...
...action will appeal to youngsters most of all. The "Carosello of the Roses," for example, is a dazzling sword fight between six horsemen who try to slash short-stemmed roses from each other's helmets. The "Coliseum" num ber is even more savage. It opens with a gladiator whipping a half-clad "Roman slave," winds up with two four-horse chariots racing madly around the ring to see who can get to the victim first. The winner has the honor of tying the slave behind his chariot and dragging him across the arena and through the exit at full...
...same day, August 6, the International Days of Protest will be holding demonstrations all over the globe in memory of the bombing of Hiroshima, and in protest of the Vietnamese war. A num- ber of the New York demonstrators, including A.J.P. Musty, are expected to drive up to the meeting in Connecticut to listen to Senator Morse's address...
...peak). That move, flagrantly ignoring Johnson's veiled warning, brought the Administration into the open. At a press conference in Wash ington, called at Johnson's specific command, Economic Adviser Gardner Ackley, Defense's McNamara and Treasury's Fowler declared that the alumi num price rises "have no justification under the wage-price guideposts and therefore are inflationary." Though he denied that the decision had anything to do with aluminum price rises, McNamara announced that the Government will sell 200,000 tons of surplus alumi- num at market prices in 1966, allowed that the sale...
Conservative M.P.s did not gloat over Labor's abrupt and embarrassing turnabout. Colored residents in Britain num ber less than 1% of the population, and it is apparently the intent of both parties to keep it that way. In noting the absence of debate on the White Paper, the Times argued that many M.P.s "may feel privately that public feeling on racial questions has now reached the point at which it might be a preponderant, if not decisive, issue at the next election." To hold on to political power, Labor seems to have concluded that its hot words...