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Self-Righteous Zeal. Frei proved to be a dedicated reformer but a poor politician. In proceeding with his revolution, he managed to offend just about everyone. The Communists attacked his land-reform program because it stole, with little change, the thunder from their land-for-the-masses campaign promises. The landlords were unhappy because the government paid low prices for the expropriated property. A united front of leftist parties called FRAP attacked his plan to "Chileanize" the country's foreign-owned copper industry because it stopped short of nationalization. The rich complained about having to pay income taxes...
...hubristic history, can now be traversed in three hours flat by means of the Hikari, a sleek supertrain whose name, if not quite its speed (125 m.p.h.), means "light" in Japanese. The city dweller of the Tokaido is confronted with problems endemic to urban life everywhere. His highways thunder to the rush of 15 million speeding trucks, cars and motorcycles. Commuter trains on Japan's excellent railway system must hire "pushers" to jam the passengers into the steamy cars. A lack of sewerage results in the use of "vacuum trucks," the odoriferous tank cars that daily pump...
Staid Parke-Bernet was so captivated by its romantic consignment that for a month preceding the auction the gallery staged a $100,000 exhibit around it, including a hurricane room with simulated thunder and lightning and a reconstructed captain's cabin with an open chest of gold coins and a live macaw. Handsome though it was, the display merely hinted at the real splendor of the original hoard. The Silver Plate fleet, commanded by Captain General Don Juan Estéban de Ubilla, bore silver and gold worth today's equivalent of about $14 million, together with Chinese...
...cupboard needs no nail at all. Then, says Grotz, there are the "cute little Early American pine three-drawer chests that are only as high as a Victorian commode." They are just that, with the lower doors removed and two drawers fitted into the space where the old thunder mugs were kept...
Teeny hoppers and overaged juveniles, surfers and Hell's Angels, high school dropouts and stay-ins alike, pile in by the thousands to writhe to the electronic thunder of the Byrds, the Jefferson Airplane and the New Generation in such clubs as It's Boss (formerly Giro's), The Trip (once the Crescendo) and Pandora's Box. Teen Idols Sonny & Cher invented folk rock there and, at the same time, set off the craze for ruffled bellbottoms. The Strip became the perfect place for flaunting rebellion, for catching the latest underground movie at the Cinematheque...