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...showed up with his wife last fall to teach physics, and a Peace Corps teacher of chemistry and biology. David Schmidt, a Swiss farmer, got so fascinated with Mayflower three years ago that he rented his farm, packed up his wife and four children, now works from sunup to sundown - without pay - making bricks. "When they saw Mr. Schmidt take off his shirt and go to work," recalls happy Headmaster Solarin, "the boys were staggered...
...Toward sundown. Announcer Paul Kal-linger hunches on the edge of a straight-backed chair, unplugs his mellifluous bass voice, lets it pour into the microphone. "How do you do? How do you do? How do you do? If you've just joined us. we're sure glad to have you out there listening to our program-Gospel Request Time." The first request is a hillbilly item called / Saw the Light, and when it is over, Kallinger uses the light for a transition into a five-minute commercial: "I hope many people will see the light tonight...
...Cruel Choice." In the second test, separate groups of orthodox Jews contended that the blue laws discriminated against them. The reason: their religion requires that they refrain from working or buying on the Jewish Sabbath, which runs from Friday sundown to Saturday sundown. Thus they cannot do business on either Saturday or Sunday...
Hanoi, long the brothel-studded "Paris of the Orient," is now grubby and cheerless, and the once glittering Street of Silk is deserted soon after sundown, reported TIME Correspondent James Wilde, one of the few Westerners to visit Hanoi in its six years of Red rule. Crowds flock to the "people's stores"-but only to stare enviously at shoddy goods priced way out of reach of the average worker's 40-dong monthly salary. (A bicycle, at 400 dong, is the ultimate symbol of status.) Loudspeakers call everybody to calisthenics three times a day. Dressed Chinese-style...
...rain may never fall till after sundown, By eight the morning fog must disappear. And again, much later, as royalty asking What Do Simple Folk Do?-and whistling, singing, dancing by way of answer-they are appealingly gay. But too often Camelot's gaiety grows flip or desperate, as its more serious scenes seem faint. And in time Julie Andrews, however engaging, seems no Guinevere, as Robert Goulet, however nice his voice, was never Lancelot; and King Pellinore becomes a chattering burden in the court and Morgan le Fay a darting disaster in the forest. Richard Burton, playing Arthur...