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...country's 24 million teen-agers do not lack for magazines aimed directly at their age group. Coed, Dig, 'Teen, Fifteen, Seventeen, Teen Talk, Teenage Times and Ingenue-the varied titles add up to several dozen, but they all share a common trait: they are published by adults who may or may not have retained their passports to the juvenile mind. Last week in Denver, newsstands displayed a newcomer to the list: a teen-age magazine that is put out by teenagers...
...World's Fair looks as if it had been created by some usually normal person who had taken meascaline and allowed his consciousness to go wild. The world's biggest cheese a (seventeen-ton cheddar) sits near a simulated cigar chimney that blows ten-foot smokerings 150 feet into the air. Near the "Festival of Gas" loom nine life-size dinosaurs, and one display boasts a "university for porpoises...
Amanda is one of the best of William's characters, but also one of the most difficult to play. She must reminisce dreamily about the easy gentility of her youthful days in the South, where she once entertained seventeen "gentlemen callers" with kitty talk, and at the same time must show through as an insipid and very ungenteel middle-class mother, the kind of woman who would fall for an alcoholic telephone man despite her "fastidious" tastes. This is a hard contrast to handle without making Amanda merely laughable. Another contrast is even more difficult. Amanda must be a nagging...
Tamarind does more than make lithos: it makes lithographers. Seventeen artisans, usually on leave from college graphic-arts departments, have received $1,200 grants for three-month working sojourns. Tamarind conducts a research lab where artisans experiment with new lithographic methods...
Pursuing some Communist Viet Cong guerrillas who had fled across the ill-patrolled and ill-marked border, South Vietnamese T-28s had bombed the village of Chantrea, four miles inside Cambodia; the planes were followed on the ground by South Viet Nam troops accompanied by U.S. observers. Seventeen Cambodians were killed. Both the U.S. and South Viet Nam apologized for the unfortunate incident, a part of the even more unfortunate, long and deadly war in Viet Nam. But Sihanouk plastered horror pictures on every available wall and took to the radio in his terrier's tenor, accusing...