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Lavish Homage. Perhaps the only Spot in the Soviet Union where Stalin's anniversary was marked with joy was his birthplace, the squalid little Georgian town of Gori. There, obdurate Georgians, proud of a native son's fame (or infamy), paid him lavish homage. TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud found policemen posted along all the roads to Gori on December 21, stopping all but residents of the town to prevent Georgian jubilation from becoming an unseemly public spectacle...
...federal grand juries, a statewide and a local grand jury are probing organized crime in Newark and elsewhere in New Jersey. Following last week's indictments, the Newark Star-Ledger suggested that it would be in the city's best interests if "those under a cloud of suspicion were to remove themselves from office." The local Chamber of Commerce called for the suspension of all those indicted...
...haunts that building is beautiful and moving, and perhaps more so than anything to come, it is over. Its present inhabitants should leave that legacy to the scholars whose critical voyeurism will no doubt make short work of it. In the meantime undergraduate writers need to banish the deadening cloud of fustian and self-importance that inevitably pervades literary-academic communities...
Mountain Refuge. Militia training has been stepped up everywhere. Visitors to the recent Canton trade fair report that a huge tunnel complex has been built beneath the city that will enable downtown residents to flee to the relative safety of White Cloud Hill nine miles away. Washington discounts rumors that the Chinese have chiseled an elaborate command post out of 12,000-ft. mountains in Szechwan province as a refuge for Chairman Mao Tse-tung and his deputy Lin Piao in the event of an attack. But U.S. sources have been told that underground headquarters have been dug in almost...
...eclipse will also be visible from Nantucket and along a band south to Mexico Scientists from all over the world will meet at Oaxaca. however. because the chance of cloud cover is smaller there than elsewhere along the band...