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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wilhelm Memorial Church, as well as at scores of theaters in the rest of West Germany, long lines of Germans have been lining up to see a new hit. The central figure-his black hair combed flat across his forehead, his impassioned voice exhorting his followers to build a thousand-year Reich-is der Führer himself. The 2½-hour documentary movie about him, Hitler-A Career, is the smash of the summer, drawing thousands to the box offices and spurring a nationwide re-examination of the Nazi past...
...parents scraped along on odd jobs until the family moved to Memphis when Elvis was 13. He was fanatically and unabashedly devoted to his mother. He was buried near her after the kind of awful, agonized public wake that attended the passing of Rudolph Valentino and Judy Garland. Eighty thousand fans jammed the street outside his Memphis mansion, Graceland, hoping for a view of the body; 30,000 were admitted to the house. Dozens swooned, cried, keened and passed out from the heat outside the mansion gates. Two people were killed when a drunken driver plowed into the crowd. After...
...Five thousand fervent admirers turned up at the airport in Maharashtra state to greet Mrs. Gandhi en route to Bhave's ashram. Three times her cavalcade halted as she delivered her first political speeches since March. She warned that Prime Minister Morarji Desai's government could not deliver on its promise to reduce unemployment and poverty in a decade. "The Congress has a program to help the poor and the weak," she cried. "The country cannot make progress until their economic conditions improve...
British Science Writer Adrian Berry is an incorrigible optimist. In The Next Ten Thousand Years he boldly disputed today's Cassandras by predicting that man would not only thrive but reach the far-off stars. Now Berry describes how earthlings might actually take that quantum leap. He advises the emigrants, literally, to jump into black holes...
...hardly a typical teen-ager's dream vacation. One thousand two hundred and fifty students were jammed together in sweltering, un-airconditioned dorms in the 101° F. Florida heat. There was all the excitement of a library reading room at high noon: teen-agers hunched in corners, muttering over dog-eared textbooks or stacks of index cards. The prevailing sense of humor was as old as the Roman hills: bantering buttons with such slogans as DA MI OSCULUM LATINE LOQUOR (Kiss me, I speak Latin) and ATLAS IS TOO STONED TO CARE...