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...volunteers can be sure of at least one thing: their work in parts of darkest America may be harder than if they went to darkest Africa. "We don't want softies." says one Administration planner. "National Service Corps work won't be a picnic in Central Park nor an outing at Coney Island. In some places, it will be tougher than serving in the Peace Corps overseas...
...engaing assault on eye and ear, RTFs show takes the televiewer to a picnic on the Marne, a village Bastille Day fete, a couturier's salon. Hachette's producers rented a whole railroad to film the champagne country east of Paris, spent four days tying up traffic in the Avenue de 1'Opéra to film the perils of taking a Parisian taxi, and magnificently illustrated the verb "smell" by going to a pungent source-the Paris...
...England for a visit with King George and Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother Mary, and the Winston Churchills carrying just one evening dress, two day dresses, one suit and a few blouses. She could delightedly entertain the King and Queen at Hyde Park with a hot dog and mustard picnic-that was real Americanism. She knew she was homely, so she scorned lipstick and powder, always considered comb and hairbrush sufficient...
...Walk has very little to do with plot or motivation. She's distraught, she walks; he's calm, he walks; she's placid, suicidal, elated or enraged, she walks. The Walk has nothing to do with getting anywhere-no picnic, party or supermarket is ever set out for, much less reached (in fact, when achieving a destination is of any importance, everyone slips into the nearest sports car or on any available elevator, never attempts to make it on foot...
...bright and clear, many suburban workers bolted from the breakfast table with their kippers uneaten and their cuppas undrunk. To their surprise, there was no need at all to rush. As it turned out. the heaviest road traffic was not going into London but the other way-to beaches, picnic grounds and golf courses. For every brave Briton who had decided to struggle to work, it seemed that at least two simply took the day off. The City of London had one-third its normal inflow of 1,500,000 people. Shops were half empty. Autos zipped into town...