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Mushroomburgers & Sundaes. Los Angeles is the holy temple of the American cult of youth. As evidenced by the tight slacks and long hair on Sunset Strip, the bikinied surfers who abound along the coast and the fashionable boutiques and beauty parlors of Beverly Hills, it is a city that seeks ceaselessly after youth. Sports cars and motorcycles are everywhere-but so, too, are the symptoms of another Los Angeles fixation: death. In the city that made interment a high art, and to which oldsters gravitate to spend their final years, bus-stop benches double as advertisements for funeral homes...
Baird also followed the practice, instituted last year at Harvard, of closing all but four gates of the Yard at sunset. This had been a weekend-only policy during the regular year, but Baird decided to put it on a daily basis in order to restrict entrance to the Yard and make it easier for the University police to patrol the dormitory area...
...story goes a bit differently. Prime Minister Thanom Kittikachorn used to watch a Thai translation of TV's Legend of Jesse James every Saturday night, along with 100,000 other fans. Then it got to bothering him to see a bad guy like Jesse ride off into the sunset unpunished at the end of each episode. "The series might mislead Thai youth into thinking wrong is right," the Prime Minister announced, and so he knocked poor Jesse right off the air-without even firing a shot...
Hovering over the open-air podium with his arms outstretched, the white-bearded, white-jacketed conductor looked like a snowy egret about to flap off into the fading sunset. Instead, he flew into Beethoven's Sixth Symphony, his baton carving the air, his left hand kneading a softly glowing tone from the strings. In Copland's Quiet City, he moved with the sure, deft strokes of a tailor stitching a hem, weaving the complex patterns into a taut whole. The interpretations, typically, were masterpieces of lucidity and logic, and at concert's end the audience at Stanford...
...Angeles street corner last week, solicitors for Audience Surveys Inc. invited passers-by to a free "evening of entertainment" at a theater on Sunset Boulevard. The entertainment consisted of previews of two new television series, and all that the survey company asked of its audience was that each guest manipulate a rheostat-like dial during the show-twist it counterclockwise toward "very dull" or clockwise toward "very good" as the mood struck. On both coasts, CBS's Program Analyzer Unit conducts similar screenings, except that CBS's sample viewers operate not dials but buttons-pushing the green...