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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hialeah Gardens, Fla. (pop. 180) has only one distinguishing feature. Fourteen miles northwest of Miami, it straddles U.S. Highway 27, one of the roads that carry thousands of money-loaded tourists to Hialeah Race Track, just six miles away. In 1955, unhappily aware that all this traffic was racing by-much of it trying to get to the track in time for the daily double-Hialeah Gardens set itself up a whopping new industry: a speed trap...
Gamal Abdel Nasser dined quietly at Aleppo's guesthouse, then announced with studied casualness that he was going out for a tour of Syria's largest city (pop. nearly 500,000). He climbed into a black sedan driven by Lieut. Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, the man he has picked for his proconsul in Syria-now known as the United Arab Republic's "Northern Region." Serraj drove him to the airport, where Nasser's private airplane waited.' Under cover of darkness and secrecy, the plane headed southwest past Israel's intervening airspace, and arrived safely...
...even though it might not show through"), the spin-and-spielers set up a lament about such bosses as Host Storz, a onetime disk jockey whose four-station chain (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Kansas City, Mo., New Orleans, Miami) makes big profits out of relentless plugging of the "Top 40" pop tunes. They protested that this formula is turning the disk jockey into an automaton, stripping him of the "personality" that is his stock in trade...
...Snyder, N.Y. (pop. 18,000), an upper-middle-class suburb of Buffalo, a school survey found that kindergarten tots are at their TV sets roughly half as much time (14.2 hours a week) as in their classrooms, but as pupils grow up to the sixth grade they devote almost equal time to school (27½ hours a week) and televiewing (26 hours a week). Other findings: ¶ Offered a choice, 51% of the children would prefer a sound spanking to a parental blackout of their favorite program. ¶ Parents must threaten or nag 43% of the youngsters to wrench them...
...opening-night audience stared pop-eyed at some choice Saturnalia and orgies, at an Egyptian belly dance and a Greek striptease, at gladiatorial combat in the arena. In his experimental dance technology, Moiseyev brilliantly scrapped most of the cliché-laden movements and figures of Russian classical ballet, while retaining classical techniques of body control. Moreover, Moiseyev did away with the traditional counterpoint between soloist and corps de ballet, made mass dancing the ballet's main feature ("My hero," says Moiseyev, "is the masses...