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...devaluation of the pound was followed by the equally traumatic devaluation of Harold Wilson and his government. Crowds mounted a week-long vigil on the sidewalk opposite No. 10 Downing Street, some of them crying: "Get out, you silly nits." In most un-British fashion, eggs were hurled at Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan. A poll published by the Daily Mail reported that 54% of British voters thought that Wilson should resign, and that 56% believed that devaluation was the result of Labor's mismanagement. In the only chance that Britons had to express their judgment with ballots...
...trips to the Hermitage in Leningrad and the Louvre in Paris. One Yugoslav physical culture group's lottery is offering hard-to-get Peugeots and trips to the Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France, plus U.S.-made exercise equipment as consolation prizes. And homeward-bound Yugoslav workers stop by sidewalk Daj-Dam ("You give-I'll give") stands for a while-U-wait wager: two dinars (16?) buys a sealed number that, if a winner...
During the raid on the office roughly 30 people distributed 2000 free Avatars to crowds at Harvard Square, while four Cambridge police told everyone to "keep moving and stop blocking the sidewalk...
...true." And what is America's contribution? "The deproletarianization of the working man. He ceases to be a proletarian. He thinks he's as good as everybody else." Hoffer knows he is. "You can almost close your eyes," he says, "reach over the sidewalk and make a man President, and he'll turn out to be Truman." That, in Hoffer's eyes, is "terrific, breathtaking...
Thus, City-wide issues are often shunted in favor of questions concerning a neighborhood, or even just a block. Councillors fight to get a sidewalk repaired, a traffic light installed, or a playground cleaned in their strongholds...