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...Nora! I will never hear that music again because I can never believe again) at the time I used to meet you, every second night you kept an appointment with a friend of mine outside the Museum, you went with him along the same streets, down by the canal . . . down to the bank of the Dodder. You stood with him: he put his arm round you and you lifted your face and kissed him. What else did you do together?" Joyce had no sooner mailed the letter than he discovered that he had been cruelly hoaxed by the other...
...State Senator Michael J. Maloney of Cincinnati: "It's hard any more in Cincinnati to locate ethnic areas, the Italians and Germans in particular, and the Irish too. You don't have the enclaves that used to exist, like the over-the-Rhine area across the canal." Once, south St. Louis was as German as Berlin, studded with beer gardens. Turnvereins and regular Schutzen-fests. Today the beer gardens have become bars, the Turnvereins have disbanded, and the Germans who made their start in south St. Louis have prospered and dispersed. In Kansas City, the young Italians...
...sides of the mountain. In the Trentino region near Austria, 30,000 persons were left homeless. The torrent uprooted vineyards in Chianti-producing Tuscany and massacred livestock in a region that produces most of Italy's meat. In Venice, it heavily damaged some 7,000 shops, though canal-traveling Venetians were better able to ride out the crisis than the Florentines...
...hand-drawn circulars passed from neighbor to neighbor, in organized mail campaigns, or to adorn elaborate newspaper ads. The greatest impetus to the petition business has been Viet Nam, but other, infinitely varied causes range from civic issues, such as the restoration of trolleys on New Orleans' Canal Street, to campus concerns, such as student demands at Berkeley that the university hospital provide birth control devices on request...
When Mrs. Marvin Glidden, 36, gave birth to a son in Los Angeles' U.C.L.A. Medical Center earlier this month, the delivery was perfectly normal in all but one detail: on its way to the birth canal, the baby's head had to push aside a transplanted kidney located on the right side of the mother's pelvic area. Neither mother nor baby was bothered a bit, but that minor deviation from standard procedure marked a major problem that had worried doctors all through Bonnie Glidden's pregnancy...