Word: packed
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Over the weekend, many a city dweller who stayed in town for the election took advantage of the sunny weather and left for his country home (la petite maison de campagne). There are now more than 2,000,000 people with second homes, and they pack France's narrow country roads with their Peugeot 404s and R.16s. Many others take off to visit relatives in the provinces, for France is a nation that is pulling its young out of the country and into the cities. More than 350,000 Bretons, mostly young, have migrated to Paris, and in their...
...room, small, bare-containing only a bed, a chair, an electric heater, a radio and a single picture of Jesus Christ. Though the years stretched out in a monotony of sameness, there was always the fear of detection. With his father now dead, Cortés realized that each pack of cigarettes, each shirt his wife bought could give them away. Juliana became a peddler and would go down to Málaga to sell Mijas' hemp products and to buy miscellaneous goods and clothes for resale in Mijas, so that an extra shirt or trousers caused no comment...
Nixon's orderly approach to running the Government allows White House reporters to plan their day; all they have to do is check the presidential schedule. They know when to pack their travel bags, when to expect a weekend at home. Gone are Johnson's impromptu press conferences and his sudden take-offs for Texas. Gone also is the spice of the unexpected, the spontaneity of a Kennedy quip or a Johnson sermonette. There is less news out of the Nixon White House, but when it comes, it is more likely to be substantive, less...
First in the week's pack of animals is a precocious pachyderm named Aida, who co-stars with Oliver Reed and Michael J. Pollard in Hannibal Brooks and wins all acting honors by default...
...anticommercials themselves are sometimes just the reverse of cigarette ads; the smokers are miserable instead of happy, look stale instead of springtime-fresh, cough instead of smile. By far the most chillingly effective ad is an appeal by Actor William Talman, a longtime three-pack-a-day smoker. Talman, who played the prosecuting attorney in the Perry Mason series, looks gaunt and ill as he appears onscreen with his family. He tells viewers: "I have a family consisting of six kids and a wife whom I adore, and I also have lung cancer, which means that my time with this...