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...Portico of Zeus haunted by Socrates, the Temple of the Mother of the Gods where the city records were kept and in the courtyard of which Diogenes lived in a tub, a Temple of Apollo, a main thorough fare 30 feet wide leading to the Acropolis...
...procession will finally work out to Boylston Street from the Eliot House courtyard, cross Larz Anderson bridge, and stop in front of the Field House. The full band will be waiting for the students to arrive...
...some places he encountered tepidity, mediocrity, downright corruption. The much-touristed monastery at Himi was particularly disenchanting: the food and water were noisome, ferocious dogs snarled (chained) in the courtyard, inestimable works of art disintegrated in the corridors, the abbot was a fool for such gadgets as bicycle bells and dry-cell batteries, all of them out of commission. But Marco Pallis did find four good & great men, to whom he dedicates his book. From one he learned the traditions and processes of Tibetan painting. With the others he debated on war, on compassion, on the relative merits of Christianity...
...Harte had visited Leon Trotsky's lawyer, Albert Goldman, who hired the youth to work in Mexico City as a secretary-bodyguard to the Great Exile. Last month Sheldon was kidnapped by a terrorist group who riddled the Trotsky home with bullets, tossed an incendiary bomb into the courtyard, killed nobody in the house (TIME, June 3). Next day Jesse S. Harte (until then unaware of his son's job with Trotsky) enplaned in Manhattan, streaked to Mexico City, offered 10,000 pesos ($2,035) reward for Sheldon...
...armed with Tommy guns broke into the patio of an isolated Coyoacán villa one night last week. They overpowered five guards, threw an incendiary bomb into the patio, and in the light of its flare proceeded to shoot up all the rooms giving on the courtyard. Then they went inside the house and, standing outside the master's bedroom door, whaled 300 rounds through it. After five minutes of incessant firing, the attackers made off, and Mexico's most famous exile, Leon Trotsky, rose with his wife from the floor of his bedroom, unscathed except...