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...could be worse for Robert Q. Crane as he seeks renomination for yet another term as Treasurer. Last year, beset with political problems stemming from a criminal investigation into his conduct as treasurer, he looked like a loser...
...cultists screamed obscenities and their children cried, police used a bulldozer to knock down a wooden barricade and a crane to knock out windows. Firemen pumped streams of water through a cellar window, sending rats, dogs and people scurrying to safety. Suddenly, shots rang out. Police lobbed tear gas and smoke bombs into the house. After 45 minutes, the MOVE members -twelve adults and eleven children-stumbled out. The toll: one policeman dead; seven policemen, five firemen, three MOVE members and three bystanders wounded...
...protesters were arrested after they climbed a crane and placed a "no nukes" sign on top. Construction workers were unable to talk the demonstrators down, and the state police were called into arrest them...
...epistolary novel was moved up to the 1920s--the version that brought fame to Bela Lugosi (whom I saw play it here in Boston near the end of his life) and is now doing the same on Broadway for Frank Langella. Nor is it the later adaptation by Crane Johnson, which I have never seen...
...Crane declares that he wants to end his years on a patch of Indiana land he owns. But first he has to get power if he is to be able to walk away from it in style. One way or another, he will go back to the farm...