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...that endure, like highly stylized theatre and the ferris wheel in the Prater (both of which appear, naturally, in the film), it is above all the city of which people say: it is not what it used to be. It is, as innumerable shots of blasted buildings and crafty workmen constantly suggest, very much what George Orwell meant when he talked about "the ancient boneheap of Europe...
...lively members of the lusty clan founded by his "Commodore" grandfather, the late Philanthropist-Yachtsman Frederick Wil liam Vanderbilt (1856-1938) was coming in for some posthumous reappraisal. In the process of renovating Vanderbilt's 211-acre Hyde Park, N.Y., estate, now maintained by the National Park Service, workmen uncovered a 30-ft.-wide ceiling mural depicting bare-breasted nymphs gamboling around an old man with his head in his hand. Reportedly painted over on curt instructions from Vanderbilt's wife, the mural will henceforth be left unwhitewashed for what the Park Service described as "historical and interpretive...
...really frightening one. There were no windows in it at all. It was a place impossible to enter except through a maze of barbed wire entanglements, steel doors, and hidden machine-gun nests. Even the streets leading up to its outer barrlers were reamed by gorilla-faced [workmen] in black uniforms...
What does such security cost? When wartime coalition governments adopted the womb-to-tomb plan fathered by Sir William (now Lord) Beveridge, it was estimated that NHS might cost only $500 million a year. Workmen's payroll taxes, to be applied to NHS costs, were set at 9? a week, to yield an estimated 10% of total costs, with no charges for prescriptions, eyeglasses or dentistry. The deficit would come from the Treasury's general tax funds...
Elevators II--Once you find them, you see a little sign. "Harvard," it says, pointing to the left, "Workmen" to the right. Try the left, knowing your place. After ten minutes or so a workman will happen by and invite you to use his elevator. "The other one isn't working...