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Despite such calming gestures, a residue of bitterness persists in the wake of Proposition 13's passage. The city council in Livermore (pop. 54,400) has taken a defiant stand, vowing to spend $320,000 on new council chambers even while threatening to fire a fourth of the city...
But the biggest jolt for Americans who plan to travel extensively abroad is the cost of intra-European airplane tickets and the use of a car. The tourist who has flown from New York City to London for $138 finds that he must pay $575 for a round-trip economy...
Uganda, in short, would be stone broke if it did not receive occasional Arab aid. The currency notes, all of which bear Amin's bejowled and bemedaled portrait, have always been worthless outside the country and now count for nothing inside because people do not want them. Instead, they...
Paine did write occasionally on political questions, but it was the news of last spring's skirmish at Lexington and Concord that turned him into the fiery prophet of the new America he saw taking form. Says he: "It was the cause of America that made me an author. I...
M'FINGAL by JOHN TRUMBULL 44 pages. J. Almon. 1 shilling.