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...meanest. In a car he jousts for the right of way. In the subway or on a bus he jostles for a seat. On the sidewalk he just walks where he likes, on others' heels, up their backs, into their paths. Or does he? According to Michael Wolff, a doctoral candidate in social psychology, an outstanding characteristic of pedestrian behavior in a big city is consideration...
Even pedestrians in Manhattan, says Wolff, cooperate with fellow walkers. They might not exchange pleasantries like their small-town counterparts, but they "do take into account the qualities and predicaments of other pedestrians in regulating their own behavior." For instance, they generally follow certain unwritten rules of sidewalk traffic. Some of these parallel the written laws of the road; some simply reflect good old-fashioned chivalry...
Eventually, at 25, she "exploded," leaving home and father to take up auto-racing and mix with the Stirling Moss crowd. Finally, she left the country to try a singing career in Paris. The British promptly forgot all about her. She soon met Claude Wolff, a press-agent for a French record company, and for the past eight years they have succeeded in maintaining a flourishing husband-manager-star relationship. Pet knew that she was subject to intermittent depressions, was unable to cope with booking arrangements, and that "sometimes I would need to be treated as a child." Claude knew...
Image Problem. Aside from TV, Wolff has committed her to a few campus and concert appearances in the States and a stand at Harrah's club at Lake Tahoe, all of which should keep her 1970 income at the $1,000,000 level to which she has become accustomed. She is fed up with period movies like Chips ("I have nothing to do with 1924, really") and other musicals. Not that either picture was such a box-office smash that Hollywood is pressing her to do another of that genre. Right now, Pet says, she is looking...
...Exposure Debate. Legislators are looking into nuclear safety with new zeal. The Joint Congressional Committee on Atomic Energy has been holding full-scale hearings on the subject. New York Representative Lester L. Wolff believes that the entire nuclear-power industry should be put into "mothballs for the next ten years until the environmental effects of the mammoth plants now nearing completion have been reliably assessed...