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...point in his speech, Marcos confessed: "I have been hounded by criticism that I am much too pro-American." Nonetheless, Marcos and his countrymen are far from tame clients. Nationalism is the most potent political force among the 32 million people who inhabit the 7,000 islands of the Philippine archipelago, and the form it usually takes is anti-Americanism...
...would leave the county and state with most of their present powers. It obviously takes more than one man to run a city as vast, diverse and complicated as Los Angeles. The qualities that give Los Angeles its vitality, in fact, also make it a hard city to tame. Most Americans, as Berkeley's Sociologist Nathan Glazer points out, would like, if given their choice, to create their own version of Los Angeles. They would like to duplicate the providential medley of sea, sun and sky, the combination of cultural and recreational advantages, the chance to seize opportunity...
CACTUS FLOWER. The French need sex farces as children need fairy tales. In this telling, a dour duckling (Lauren Bacall) becomes an appealing swan just in time to tame the big wolf (Barry Nelson...
Rosa did the now famous portrait depicting Bill astride his favorite Appaloosa. In return for the portrait, the King of Cowboys sent Rosa a pair of wild American mustangs. In no time at all, they were broken in and eating out of Rosa's hand, just as tame as kittens. They were the models for some of her most important pictures...
...Beatles were hooted out of Manila, and the national cricket team is currently getting clobbered by the West Indies. Still, England oscillates. The cause of the excitement is an ugly, 12-in.-high trophy known as the World Cup and symbolic of supremacy in soccer - a game that seems tame to Americans, but still is the most popular spectator sport on earth. In London last week, after years of trying, England finally won the World Cup by defeating West Germany...