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Frisoli alternated between sitting calmly on the stage and waving at his supporters and conferring with them off stage. At one point, however, he became incensed at an anti-Frisoli speech and raced to the front of the stage, calling the departing speaker--a representative of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce--"the biggest weasel that ever hit this town." An unidentified man from the audience then began striking the Chamber of Commerce representative, but the fight was quickly halted by Cambridge police. No arrests were made...
...probity by the leftist parties as well as by most Christian Democrats. Born in Naples, he is one of the country's finest criminal lawyers and has written more than 100 books on jurisprudence. He served as a caretaker Premier twice, and was an impartial president of the Chamber of Deputies for eight years. In 1967, he was appointed Senator for life. Beyond Leone's personal qualifications for the job, there was one other reason why many Italians were ready to forgive the Deputies for their indecision and rejoice in the final selection. That was Vittoria Leone...
...riverfront expressway, which would have been an aesthetic catastrophe for the graceful Vieux Carré. They launched a thorough investigation of the project and within two weeks produced a detailed report showing the expressway to be the result of shoddy planning. Their findings did not endear them to the Chamber of Commerce-nor, they were astonished to find, to many of their lifelong friends. They were quietly but firmly pushed out of what they refer to as the "velvet rut." Says Borah: 'If you are born in the right family and keep your mouth shut, you can just ride...
Since many of the faithful had come at 11 p.m. to hear chamber music, by 1:30 in the morning it was clear that an intermission was more a curse than a blessing. Professor Yannatos eliminated it, conducting the well-known Strauss Till Eulenspiegel right after the Prokofiev. It was a perfectly light-hearted conclusion to an unusual evening. The Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra has demonstrated an exciting and impressive level of skill in their second concert of the season...
...that he was crazy. Not so, said Dr. David Marlowe, a University of California psychologist who has interviewed the defendant for a total of 75 hours over the past year, and who testified with Frazier's consent. Marlowe claimed that Frazier really wants to die in the gas chamber; in an exercise in double reverse psychology, he hoped that the court would assume he was deliberately trying to appear unbalanced, would see through the act and refuse to put him in a mental institution...