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...World, Roddy, who wears a silver stud in his left ear, has twice invited Margaret to Surrendell, a decaying manoit near Bath that he and some chums have turned into a commune. On one of her visits-both made without her photographer husband Lord Snowdon-Margaret weeded the vegetable patch, then later joined Roddy at the piano to sing Chattanooga Choo Choo and Blue Moon. Some members of Parliament may applaud the idea of the Princess as communard: perhaps she can be persuaded to surrender some of her $70,000-a-year state allowance...
...present Popular Party government has responded to the current crisis by trying to patch up the Bootstrap program. Its first answer is an advertising campaign in the American financial press that touts the benefits of doing business in "Profit Island, U.S.A.": political stability, tax exemptions, and a very productive labor force. Beyond the advertising, the government's most important plan is a renegotiation of the relation of Puerto Rico to the United States that would preserve the colonial framework but allow some autonomy in setting wages, pollution controls, and tariffs. This "compact of permanent union", now before Congress, would permit...
Coach Peter Tolnai said after the match that Mt. Southington, located midway between New Haven and Hartford, is "the smallest hill and patch of snow I've seen...
...directly represent the spaces of the Midwest, any more than the jagged profiles and vertiginous falls and splits of color represent the Rockies. Yet the fundamental American sense of landscape-vast space conferring freedom-is unmistakably there. Cataracts of ultramarine blue, gorges of orange and cadmium yellow, a patch of blue appearing like the blind eye of a lake: color becomes iconography...
...oddest sights in sport. Tracing the circumference of perfect circles on the ice, first forward then backward on one foot, the skater moves around a small patch of the rink. Then, after the ice chips have been swept clear, the judges, who have been watching closely, scurry onto the ice. They bend over to examine the skate lines cut into the frozen expanse...