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...there. The natives have a distinct style. A behavioral scientist might understand the manifestations of this style; a tourist can only let the impressions reflect and magnify in the back of his mind's eye. Is something special in the way children congregate around the big tree and roller skate on only one foot? Is something special when they swing their arms downward and slap spinning wooden tops at one's feet? Is something special in the perpetual squabbling of the basket weaver and the mad woman who clutches her groin when strangers pass by? Is something special...
After a year as harrowing as a ride on a runaway roller coaster, the stock market ended 1970 on the rise. The Dow-Jones industrial average started the year at 800, then plummeted to an eight-year low of 631 on May 26. After that, the market began to climb back-haltingly at first, but accelerating notably near year's end. Last week the Dow-Jones average closed 1970 at 839. That was a 4.8% increase over the 1969 close, but still far short of the 1968 high...
...what suddenly seems to be a ghost town, and pans slowly, portentously, to the white-filled stadium. He handles his fight scenes-what there is of them-clumsily. Giving up habitual Ritt photographer James Wong Howe was particularly unfortunate in this respect, as Howe was the man who donned roller skates and took his camera into the ring with Body and Soul, while Burnett Guffey specializes in landscapes...
...company's headquarters town, San Diego, have a gymnasium. The Royal Inn planned for Anaheim, Calif., will have a movie theater with free admission for guests. Royal rooms do not come cheap: as much as $20 for a single, $30 for a double, and $250 for the "high roller" suite in Las Vegas...
...BOSTON Museum of Fine Arts tried to blow out a hundred candles on its birthday cake, but the wish that came true (as a noted art dealer explained) is like a trip through the Louvre on roller skates. This is all that Masterpieces from the Metropolitan Museum has turned out to be: a dizzying race through the history...