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...could talk of little else but a cool little coup in which four men swiped a half-ton of gold from a financial-district bullion warehouse in the lunch hour. After tying up a watchman, the villains nonchalantly lugged forty 27-lb. gold bars-worth $560,000 -across a sidewalk into a blue delivery van, then made a clean getaway despite a traffic-stopping dash the wrong way on a one-way street. Hoping to keep the culprits from leaving the country, Scotland Yard posted men at every airfield and seaport in Britain. Flying-squad officers checked every small foundry...
Blossoming chestnuts cast their shade over the bookstalls along the Seine, traffic wheeled insanely around the Place de 1'Etoile and the first tourists with their cameras sank contentedly last week into chairs at sidewalk cafes...
...foot of Mount Palomar and lettuce growers in the Imperial Valley in a nostalgic reminder of a life that flows at an easier pace. "Across the street," wrote Columnist Ed Ainsworth after a Sunday service in little Escondido, "church was letting out, and friends lingered on the sidewalk in the bright sunshine to chat, an art which seems forgotten in the metropolis...
...visit to Cuba before the present Communist regime seized power, I remember being astonished by the number of students, probably members of the Young Students' Progressive League, continually agitating in front of Batista's sumptuous palace. As I stood on the Havana sidewalk marvelling at their perilous behavior, I wondered, "why don't American students demonstrate such courageous and determined political feelings?" My Cuban sojourn was during that fateful month of October, 1956, when, even in Havana news of the Hungarian student rioters headlined all the papers. Indeed, the Hungarian freedom-fighter was also a student, and we all lauded...
Shopping the French way can be a long day's journey from the corner épicene, past sidewalk stalls to the butcher, the baker and the wine merchant. Small shopkeepers still do 85% of France's retail business, but the prudent, finicky and habitual French are rapidly succumbing to a thoroughly un-Gallic habit: one-stop shopping à l'Américaine. The pioneer and fastest-growing example of the trend is Prisunic (One-Price), the Continent's largest retail chain and a sort of bouillabaisse of the U.S. five-and-dime store, the discount house...