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...entreaties of a bevy of stacked courtesans who try to vamp him out of the secret. His taste, it turns out, is strictly Occidental, and when he shares the discovery with Elke she flashes her smile and her decolletage and helps him uncover the loot. To no avail: the riches finally go into the Red when Mao's minions gun down the princess and the racketeer and force the inspector back to the West...
...avail. The law office where he had served his apprenticeship decided against hiring him. Partly supported by his aged father, who still tends bees and olive trees in Crete, Georgakakis goes on struggling in Athens, studying tape-recorded legislation, handling a few minor cases sent to him by friends, and hunting the bigger, elusive job that would vindicate his efforts. His spirit is waning. "My dream has been to become a productive unit of society," he says. "What...
...song box? A few violinists say yes, most say no. In recent years, scientists have studied the art of violinmaking in minute detail; scores of fiddles have been scraped, Xrayed, dismembered, chemically treated, dehumidified, baked, boiled, bombarded with sound waves, measured by oscilloscopes and spectrum recorders - all to little avail. Though Strads have been copied to within one-thousandth of an inch of the original, the sound never measures up. The reasons for this, as diverse and elusive as music itself, constitute a mystery and mystique that is unmatched...
...that society is represented by a gang of white toughs, in an unnamed U.S. city, who accuse Jones of an undisclosed misdeed, subject him to a "trial" in a cotton warehouse and beat him mercilessly. He seeks help from the Legal Aid Society, friends, a minister, but to no avail. In desperation, he turns and pleads his case to the audience in a moving aria, ending with the anguished cry, "I am your conscience." In the final scene, while the orchestra plays a wailing New Orleans funeral dirge, the white toughs drag the beaten Negro on stage, kill him with...
Several Assemblymen grabbed Tsafendas and wrestled him to the floor. Others, including three doctors, rushed to try to revive Verwoerd. But it was to no avail. Dr. Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd, architect of apartheid and South Africa's Prime Minister for eight years, was dead-just two days short of his 65th birthday...