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Gold prospecting ain't what it used to be. The old Forty-Niner went West to make a fortune all by himself. Today the new breed organizes, suits up in pinstripe, and tries to dig gold out of an obscure clause in 85-year-old bonds. This week the 300 members of the Gold Bondholders Protective Council plan to file a class-action suit in Anchorage, Alaska, that could force several companies and states to pay off $1 billion in long-term bond debt in gleaming gold...
...pounds, the Leverett House resident cuts a formidable figure, but not among the breed of hammer throwers, who average between 225 and 250 pounds. Lenz relies on his speed and excellent technique to overcome strength or size deficits, and often defeats much larger opponents...
Blaming the "power-mongering politicians and bureaucrats" who dominate the governments of developing African nations, Mungai called for a shift of power to the masses and for "a new breed of dedicated public servants...
SamShepard, brashest of the "new breed" playwrights, would have us believe this is the typical family in pursuit of the American dream, and nearly succeeds. His Obie-Award-winning Curse of the Starving Class, given its premiere in a strong, spare production by the Reality Theater and the Suffolk Theater Company, batters us with symbolism and seduces us with humanity. It never fails to provoke, but still comes up short of theatrical mastery. Having garnered an Obie and a Pulitzer (for the recent New York production of Buried Child) in two years, Shepard seems on the verge of his finest...
Counter-demonstrators pestered every major demonstration of the sixties; at D.C., there aren't many, but they're of a different, more virulent breed. Members of the Collegiate Association for the Research of the Principle (CARP), a group which members say owes its "inspiration" to Rev. Sun Myung Moon, began the afternoon heckling. Within an hour, they were jumping out of the crowd and toward the stage, flailing, screaming about Communist aggression, conspiracies, treason. Finally the police come to push them away. "Whose side are you on," one of the Moonies asked the cops. "Yours--but they...