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...climactic "rally" in Santiago's Plaza Artesanos drew a skimpy crowd. Miners in helmets and packs marched listlessly to a drum and bugle corps; a few busloads of young girls chanted: "If the government continues like this, we will cut off its nose." Not even chunky Communist Councilwoman Mireya Baltra, berating the "imperialists" between swigs from a bottle of Pepsi, could generate much enthusiasm. "This government stained its hands with blood," exulted another speaker. "We have our martyrs." Then everybody went home...
What emerged was a in-page report that tells more about Glendale than Glendale has ever known about itself. The city council wanted copies. "We're very proud of you," Councilwoman Zelma Bogue, onetime Glendale mayor, told Cassell. Proud as he was too, Teacher Cassell noted that his students "just barely scratched the surface...
...grey-haired, 47-year-old Mrs. Dorothy McCullough Lee, a lawyer, onetime state legislator, the city's first Councilwoman and its public-utilities commissioner...
...conscience of the new France was speaking. Militant Mme. Marthe Richard had served her country well as a spy in World Wars I and II. Now, as a Councilwoman of Paris, she called for her city's moral regeneration...
...hopped to a higher limb. Once Kenerson turned down two strangers' offer of $200 for the bird. Next day he found the cage spattered with blood and fragments of men's clothing. He said the thieves were lucky to have escaped alive. Last fortnight a New London councilwoman proposed that the eagle be presented to Manhattan's Central Park Zoo. Then a councilman dug up an old Connecticut law against caging eagles, announced that Uncle Sam had been illegally imprisoned all these years. "The best thing and the most humane thing to do with it," wrote...