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...immigration anywhere. Cockney housewives grimace at pungent cooking odors wafting from Indian kitchens, and early-to-bed British workingmen complain of being kept awake all night by twanging West Indian music. Since immigrant shopkeepers are willing to keep longer hours, white merchants resent the competition. More seriously, the immigrants vie for low-cost housing, which is scarce in Britain. Unwelcome in many localities, the new minority groups cluster together and overcrowd their neighborhoods, forcing out white families. Since most immigrants are raising families themselves, they overburden the schools, maternity hospitals and welfare clinics in areas where they have congregated...
Unfortunately, Godard is no longer able to make a movie without making a movie about making a movie. The central entertainment is punctured by the characters' portentous addresses to the camera. Godard too often stops the motion to zero in on words within words-as when he finds "vie" in Riviera. And his shrill anti-Americanism is strictly on the lycée level, mocking such easy and oversized targets as Coca-Cola and chewing...
N.F.L CHAMPIONSHIP (CBS, 2 p.m. to conclusion). The winners of the Eastern and Western Conference vie for a trip to the Sugar Bowl and a showdown with the American Football League...
Jack Daly, president of the Gridiron Club said, "Vie was far more than a great player. He was rated highly for his work with disadvantaged children last summer, and players on opposing teams had only the highest praise for him as a sportsman as well as a great halfback...
...were left to the cameramen, whose attention we had to vie for, thereby dividing our forces, and the emcee, a middle-aged man named Mr. Earl whose face looked like a birthday cake with all the candles blown out. As he courteously informed whoever might be interested that the instant recall of answers that we varsity scholars had been displaying was far less significant than the more significant reasoning we were capable of, Mr. Earle's eyes got a bit dreamy, as if he were writing verses for a Valentine's Day card. But when inexpicable laughter came from...