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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kukla, Ollie and Beulah Witch are guides on a tour of "swinging London," including a stop at Carnaby Street, a ride down the Thames and the changing of the Royal Guard...
...Washington's Wesley Heights, Symington took delivery on a snappy used "pedicab" he bought for $30 in Kuala Lumpur last October. "At first," he said, "I couldn't get the driver to believe I wanted to buy the thing from him-he thought I just wanted a ride." Thing is, just about everyone in Wesley Heights wants a ride now. "I've been a lot more popular lately with the neighborhood kids," puffed Symington...
Wehner was conscious that the rank-and-file of his party opposed helping their old foes out of their dilemma. Furthermore, since preference polls showed the Socialists leading the Christian Democrats by a comfortable margin, there was a strong sentiment in the party to ride out the crisis until Erhard would be forced to call new national elections; then, possibly, the Socialists could take it all. But Kiesinger was persuasive. To allow Germany to flounder indefinitely, he warned, would undermine the public's faith in the democratic system. Together, the two parties could, he promised, give German politics and prestige...
...brightest opportunity for young people moving off the farms lay in a one-way ticket to another state. Those who managed to get a good education found little reward for their learning back home; a competent technician could ask higher wages within half a day's bus ride in almost any direction. State government was hampered at every level by an anachronistic constitution enacted in 1874, which, as Arkansans point out, was "two years before Custer's last stand...
Noon Wine is close in feeling to Peckinpah's prizewinning movie, Ride the High Country. A strange, withdrawn, harmonica-playing Swede (Per Oscarsson) arrives at the small Texas spread owned by an ignorant farmer named Thompson (Jason Robards Jr.). The Swede signs on as a handyman, and in the course of three years not only tunes up the farm operations to perfect pitch but slides, in his remote way, into the heart of the family...