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Representatives of the Federal Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Massachusetts Department of Public Works yesterday denied that they had tried to "blackmail" Cambridge into accepting plans for the building of the Inner Belt and Route...
...that he has no recollection of shooting Kennedy last June. However, Diamond was able to make the assassin relive the killing in his prison cell six months later by hypnotizing him with a coin held eight inches from his eyes. "Sirhan simply pulled an imaginary gun out of his belt," Diamond recounted to the court, "and fired it convulsively again and again and shouted out: 'You son of a bitch...
...three decades, they flocked to the cities from the land of cotton, the Great Plains, the corn belt and Appalachia. It was greater even than the great Western trek of the late 19th century. In 1940, 30.5 million Americans lived on farms. Only 10.5 million remain. Now the city-bound flow has slowed to a trickle. According to new data compiled by the Agriculture Department, the farm labor force (age 14 or older) has remained static during the past two years...
...author of this hedonistic, gormandizing prayer is a Christian clergyman of serene faith. For 20 years, Robert Farrar Capon, 43, has been an Episcopal priest in Port Jefferson, N.Y., an old Long Island shipbuilding town on the edge of the Manhattan commuter belt. He lives with his wife Peg, their six children, two cats (named Anthony and Bartholomew) and a nondescript dog in a century-old house adjoining his small white clapboard church. At dinner time, the sweet cooking aromas wafting out of the old rectory hint at the true nature of a man who is no ordinary country vicar...
...advisory board to determine what churches should be demolished, preserved or put to some other use. Even this new concern, however, has not entirely erased the melancholy over the decay of England's country churches. "An empty country church," says the Rev. Philip Goodrich, vicar of a commuter-belt church near London, reflecting the sentiments of many Britons, "is somehow a much sadder phenomenon than an empty urban church. Nostalgia dogs...