Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Casting about for a regal type for a walk-on part in the film version of the famed Swedish fairy tale The Wonderful Adventures oj Nils, the producers gave the royal palace a "call. The scene required a noble-looking gentleman to walk through his chamber onto a balcony and peer at a flock of wild geese flying overhead, astride one of which is a ten-year-old boy, Nils. Most of the scene was shot from a hovering helicopter and two time-consuming retakes were needed. Patiently doing his bit: good old (79) King Gustav VI Adolph of Sweden...
...exchange of small-arms fire on a road near Aumale, southeast of Algiers, Wilde leaped from his car and hit the ditch. Then, he reported: "The road suddenly came alive with soldiers, who rushed over to where I was lying and forced me at gunpoint to get up and walk over to the car (which, as if not inflammable enough, had two spare cans of gas in the back...
...furor trying to figure out just how Soblen had managed to accumulate his massive dose-and to consume it while presumably under heavy guard. In any event, when and if Soblen does get back to the U.S., authorities had better be sure he does not just walk off one day and board the next slow boat to Red China...
...long cherished the "neighborhood school," a concept as American as apple pie. It is the simple idea that children are best served by their own local school-a school that they can walk to. a living symbol of local roots, pride and progress. Now this idea is under sharp attack because it means that where neighborhoods are segregated by race, schools...
...three other grades, and so on. This works well in small communities, notably in Willow Grove, Pa., but involves buses in bigger places. The Northern school dilemma, rooted in de facto segregation in housing, is the difficulty of reconciling the cause called integration with the common sense of walk-to-school...