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...scene, she reaches unreachable kids by getting them to relate their time to the opening lines of Dickens' Tale of Two Cities ("It was the best of times, it was the worst of times"). "Sandy gave a special dimension to the picture," says Bel Kaufman, author of the grab-bag epistolary novel on which the film is more or less based. "She's a much more vulnerable and sensitive person than the character in the book...
Panama has never been celebrated for its horseflesh, and boasts only one race track in the whole country. What it does have is an abundance of tough, transistorized youngsters who grab at racing as one good way to leave Panama and see the U.S. in style. Jorge Velasquez was 15 and eking out a living on a farm when he managed to get a job as an exercise boy at Panama City's track. Standing 5 ft. 3 in. and strong as a bull, he got his first mount in 1963, when...
EASTERN EUROPE is at last beginning to grab its share of the tourist business. Budapest's reputation as a swinging capital has penetrated the Iron Curtain. Czechoslovakia offers a Mozart festival, and of late has become downright comradely toward tourists. Says Harvard Square Travel Agent Vladimir Kazan, a Czech-born American citizen who was once jailed in Prague: "From my cellmates, I understand the country is cultivating good restaurants, picturesque cities and reasonably good hotels. I hear they're really catering to Americans." Despite his own unhappy experience, Kazan heartily recommends a visit. Soviet Russia, this year celebrating...
...course more than anybody else in the past five years, "It is like teaching somebody to ride a bicycle. It is perfectly easy to tell him what is done, but you cannot train a sense of balance.... The pupil says 'teach me to read faster,' but I can't grab hold of his eyeballs and wiggle them for him. You are trying to tell the average guy about something which is highly idiosyncratic. It is here that I begin to think to teach is an intransitive verb...
...twin-jet BAC One-Elevens, has orders for 67 more (none from U.S. airlines). And competition is growing. Next month The Netherlands expects to start test flights of its 65-passenger Fokker twin-jet F-28. At $2,350,000 per plane, Fokker figures that it can still grab a profitable chunk of business...