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...what has happened recently to transform Harvard's image from an asylum for academicians to a refuge for artists...
...some time, Cuba's Premier Fidel Castro has been sending out signals indicating that he would welcome a policy change. As long as two years ago, he promised to begin arresting skyjackers who sought asylum in Cuba. In June he quietly expelled three skyjackers and let the U.S. know they could be picked up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He returned $2 million in ransom money that had been taken to Cuba in 1972 by the skyjackers of a Southern Airways DC-9. He also toned down the anti-American rhetoric on Cuban radio concerning the U.S. naval base...
...them to leave Singer Linda Ronstadt's band to form their own group. In 1972 he advanced them $100,000, along with instructions to head for Colorado to get an act together. When the Eagles returned a month later, Geffen, who had become president of the newly created Asylum Records, immediately gave them a recording contract...
...arrested (the majority of them now free), almost invariably accused of participation in "clandestine hospitals" which would have treated pro-Allende casualties in the event of a Civil War. Journalists who worked in pro-Allende newspapers, magazines, radio or television stations have been imprisoned, killed or forced to seek asylum. A similar fate has met all leaders of the now disbanded Central Workers Union...
Harry Thaw empties his pistol into the face of Architect Stanford White, the lover of Thaw's showgirl wife Evelyn Nesbit. White goes to his grave and Thaw to an insane asylum. But Doctorow has his own plans for Evelyn. Down from her red velvet swing, she drifts to the immigrant slums of New York's Lower East Side, where her social consciousness is raised by anarchist Emma Goldman. Sigmund Freud confronts the pleasure principle at Coney Island and cannot get back to Vienna fast enough...