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...Lockheed payoff accusations, make headlines abroad, Italians are regularly treated to other stories of political chicanery, like the recent discovery of the names of several lawyers and merchants on the rolls of the Naples sanitation department, which paid them salaries though they never so much as touched a broom...
...gathers the needed implements. Mop bucket, mop. He is well aware of the danger involved in performing his function at this time of day. Playtex gloves. Some people are still sleeping. Sponge. They know him only as an early morning phantom who arrives with clinking pail on tip-toe. Broom. He recalls the morning he knocked, no answer, and entered, to find a couple obviously not expecting him, the girl screamed, the guy gurgled forth obscenities and the student porter dove into friendly porcelain territory locking the door behind him. Squeegee. And then there is the woman proctor who always...
PHILADELPHIA, PA.--The Crimson booters came riding in here on broom-sticks last night, but when they left they were whiter than ghosts, as they dropped a 2-0 decision to the Penn Quakers...
...compromise reached by the FCC and the networks to deflect mounting protests, in and out of Congress, about the rising tide of TV violence. Criticism peaked last fall when NBC aired at 8 p.m. a seamy story (Born Innocent) about a rebel teen-ager who was raped with a broom handle. With a glow of virtue, the networks "voluntarily" agreed to police themselves with their own censors and wrote into the National Association of Broadcasters' television code what amounts to a rule clearly intended to ban sex and violence from the air between 7 and 9. For audiences this...
What to do? Other mayors might have applied for state or federal aid and filled out forms until their streets were as buried as those of Pompeii-or garbage-strewn New York (see page 16). But not Kit Irby, 58. Taking broom and shovel into her own hands, she has set out to clean up the streets of Cheney ("A Community with Pride") in time for the county fair on July 31. Numerous citizens have joined in, many of them teenagers, but none has matched the mayor's daily dedication...