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...revealed the text of the letter sent by the GSAS Ad Board to the 14 punished students. The letter concludes with what the NUC terms "a crude threat to the students' future careers...
There is practically no oil in Italy, yet the state-run E.N.I, monopoly became a world petroleum power under the late Enrico Mattei and his successor, Eugenio Cefis. Mattei bought crude from the Soviets, developed natural-gas resources in the Po Valley, and proudly declared that in building E.N.I., "I broke 8,000 laws." To sidestep Cyclopean bureaucrats-with their time-consuming rules about building permits and their endless paper work-he laid the pipelines at night, while the officials slept...
Jaguars, snakes, frogs and alligators, as well as human faces and figures, provided the artisans with their motifs. The goldsmiths executed them with increasing sophistication. The very first of them, the Chavín Indians of Peru, for example, had only crude stone tools with which to beat the pure metal into shape...
...picture were tortured, they were elated by their feat. "About everybody in the crew was happier than hell," Law recounted, "because everybody could see what we were trying to do." Making fools of their captors and signaling their view of North Korea's crude propaganda had made the exercise worthwhile...
...operating out of offices in New York and Philadelphia. The revolutionary slum boy from Glasgow was able to build himself a Scottish estate in Onarga, Ill., complete with 85,000 imported trees, where he entertained the likes of General Grant and Commodore Vanderbilt. Yet as America progressed beyond the crude improvisations of frontier justice, Pinkerton gradually fitted less and less serviceably into his society. An outspoken admirer of vigilante tactics, he became a willing, over-brutal tool of mine owners and steel bosses in the terrorism that marked the early attempts to pioneer workers' rights...