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...communities where householders were still cross with the government for recently increasing their local taxes (from 50% to 300%). National opinion polls, which in the past have proved fairly accurate, apparently reflected Britons' satisfaction with a new head of steam that has begun to appear in the economy. Torn between contradictory portents, psephologists and politicians were about equally divided on whether the general election will be held this fall or next year...
...heated debate of the day came on the question of proroguing the legislative session, which in the past has run as long as January through November. Calling for the overwhelming defeat of the proposed amendment, speakers claimed would "throw the body of Parliamentary procedure to the public to be torn apart and devoured...
...fence was torn down around President Goheen's residence, an on-campus estate called "Prospect," and his flower beds were trampled. New Jersey state troopers were called in to join local police in quelling the riot...
...particular tangent. Why not make art out of old newspapers, bits of clothing, Coke bottles, books, skates, clocks? "A painting is not art simply because it is made of oil and paint or because it is on canvas," Rauschenberg argues. He also uses waste materials because, with Manhattan being torn down and built up, "this is our landscape, and I love...
...writers from Charles Dickens to Garson (Born Yesterday) Kanin. The public insists on calling its chief product junk, but this affront has not prevented scrapmen from making millions by marketing the oddments that other people throw away. To the steelmakers they sell rust-worn barbed wire from the farms, torn-up tracks from the railbeds and used appliances tossed out by housewives. They move mountains of junked cars into grasping incinerators that burn off paint, cushions and fixtures, then through presses that crumple each once pampered body into a hunk of tortured steel no bigger than a TV set. Because...