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...newspaper's crossword puzzle is usually a refuge from the sober headlines, an escapist's Eden of three-letter words for a legendary bird or the 17th century name of Tokyo. Now the heavy cares of world affairs have invaded that preserve. In a Boston Globe puzzle last week, the No. 1 down clue read: "Modern type of war." Answer: NOWIN...
AMERICA'S popular culture, the most durable product this nation has for exportation to the rest of the Western world, is a constantly changing conglomeration of fads, life-styles and heroes: about forty years ago it was crossword puzzles and dance marathons; in the fifties it was quiz-shows and hoola hopps; in the last decade it was the twist and Jackie Kennedy. The culture moves so fast that one never can be quite sure of what is happening until the latest issue of Life (mainstream-pop culture) or Rolling Stone (counter pop-culture) arrives in the mail...
...rival Zeitung fights back with such circulation builders as sex crossword puzzles, a dirty-poem page and .lurid sexoscopes (in January, Leos are "in for some luck: the boss's wife is after you," but Scorpios are advised to relax and "use this time to regenerate yourself and gather new strength"). Like concerned, civic-minded papers everywhere, the St. Pauli sheets are not above crusading. One recent Nachrichten headline read: HOW PROSTITUTION IS BEING RUINED BY HOME...
...with more on top than on the bottom, and Alan Geismer, who wrote stories for the Globe last summer on wounded GI's. The Evening Globe, which is a separate paper all by itself, has George Croft, who knows quite a lot about Cambridge and is fond of doing crossword puzzles...
...main threat to Britain's application seems to be the British themselves. While Monnet was speaking at a press conference in Brussels about the desirability of European political federation, former British Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home glanced up from a crossword puzzle and told newsmen that "we British are a practical people. We want to confront a situation first before we think about setting up an institution to handle it." During the same session, British Foreign Secretary Michael Stewart said that plans for a European Parliament were "premature." Such statements made many Europeans wonder whether the British...