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...supplies of furniture, clothing and shoes. People can once again buy and sell prawns on the open market. The arrival of a shipload of Soviet cement late last year set off a modest building boom. "There has been no change in our overall aims," asserts Trade Minister Manuel Aranda da Silva. "But you can say that Frelimo has grown up and is now more mature." That growth will be hard to sustain, though, while the government fights for survival and nearly half its people cannot get enough food...
...first unhappy surprise for Americans came at dawn Viet Nam time on Jan. 30, 1968. Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces attacked Da Nang, the second largest city in South Viet Nam, and seven other major towns. Almost 24 hours later, they mounted a wave of near simultaneous attacks throughout South Viet Nam. They hit 36 of the country's 44 provincial capitals. They overran all but a corner of the historic former capital at Hue. Communists penetrated the heart of Saigon. They attacked the U.S. embassy, the presidential palace, the government radio station. All this was the work...
...Symphony, now playing at the downtown branch of Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theater, is very funny indeed. Whether grimly trying to keep up with the quickening abandon of a mock Hungarian czardas, or haplessly segueing from Verdi's "Anvil Chorus" to Iron Butterfly's In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida, or just getting down and funky with a little tune of their own called Beaver Ball at the Bug Club, the Oil City Symphony lets the good times roll, and in the process skewers every high school music program in the country...
While advertisers have used pop songs by such current artists as Michael Jackson, Lionel Richie, David Bowie and Lou Reed, they seem to especially like oldies. They get great melodies. the Crystals' "Da Do Ron Ron" stays in your head while effectively plugging the Energizer. And these songs evoke a happy (read: when they were younger) time in the lives of many consumers...