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...scrutiny is an allegation by Mario Montuoro, a former official of New York City's Local 29 of the Blasters, Drillers and Miners Union, many of whose 400 members work for Schiavone Construction Co., where Donovan was an executive vice president in charge of labor relations. In the autumn of 1977, Montuoro contends, Donovan was present at a New York restaurant when another Schiavone official gave $2,000 to the local's president, Louis Sanzo, in a successful effort to prevent trouble with the union...
...more unsettling danger is political terrorism, from both the Red Brigades of the left and the neo-Fascists of the right. Partly as a result of improving police intelligence, acts of violence tapered off this autumn, but there were still 753 incidents in the first ten months of the year. In a Shootout on a Rome street two weeks ago, two policemen were seriously wounded and a right-wing terrorist, Neo-Fascist Alessandro Alibrandi, was killed. Next day, in retaliation, a member of the national police was shot to death...
...used to be so simple. Winter meant Charlie Brown getting hit in the back of his smooth, round noggin with a fat snowball. Spring was Charlie Brown losing another battle with the kite-eating tree. By July, he was whiffing in the bottom of the ninth, and every autumn it was back-to-school love with the little red-haired girl...
...AUTUMN of 1925, two Harvard professors were weekend guests together at the Connecticut home of a colleague. One was Lawrence Joseph Henderson, a professor of Biological Chemistry of whom George C. Homans and Orville T. Bailey, two former fellows who chronicled the Society's history, wrote. "[His] beard was red but his polities were vigorously conservative. His method in discussion [was] feebly imitated by the pike-driver." Today Homans is a professor of Sociology here...
...with their roots in the '50s, passed out petitions and organized small demonstrations. Communist parties drummed up predictable anti-NATO sentiment. But gradually, as anger and fear began to take hold, the movement reached beyond its traditional constituencies, taking on a dimension that surprised even its organizers. Finally, this autumn it reached a crescendo. More than 2 million Western Europeans have demonstrated so far in the streets of the Continent's major cities?and weekend after weekend the huge parades...