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Sweet performing "The Ballroom Blitz" on the the German TV show Sylvester-Tanzparty from the 31st December, 1974.

Gingrich lost, but he hasn’t retired. After 69 years, Newt Gingrich is wealthy, a celebrity, and the owner of a tony home in Northern Virginia. His place in the history books, as the leader of the Republican revolution, has long been established. But the former House speaker isn’t ready to fade away. “I don’t rule it out,” he said on Thursday over breakfast, when asked about a future presidential run. He spoke excitedly about his company, Gingrich Productions, and his upcoming trip to South Carolina, where he won the Republican primary last year. Gingrich’s unflagging energy isn’t surprising. We’ve all...

Since the beginning of the year, Edward I. Koch, former mayor of New York City, has signed off most of his weekly radio broadcasts with a declaration of war loosely inspired by Julius Caesar: "Omni Gaul delenda est!" ("All Gaul must be destroyed!") Mr. Koch says he doesn't mean the phrase literally, of course. But it's become a way for him to express his antipathy toward France. In harboring such feelings, he is apparently not alone. While formal polls routinely show widespread American indifference to France, some experts say anti-French sentiment in the news media is on the rise. A...

Anti-US feelings sometimes run high in Egypt Down a twisting backstreet in the medieval quarter of Cairo, we found Umm Nabil. An Egyptian lady in her late middle age, she sat upon a stool and smiled at those around her. She had every reason to be happy. Her workshop, a family business passed on from her husband, was flourishing. Her sons hammered and chipped at strips of metal, beating them into ashtrays and hubble-bubble water pipes. What she didn't know, until I told her, was that the local government grant for her business came from the United States. She...