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...absence of sellers, that kept markets in a weeklong state of 24-karat chaos. In the burgundy-carpeted, octagonal trading ring of the New York Commodity Exchange, where each day's worldwide price surge climaxed, there was unrestrained pandemonium. Brokers and dealers screamed buy orders in a deafening din that continued practically without interruption from 9:25 a.m. until the closing bell...
...that the mayor take action to give them jobs. "Enough of promises!" they cried. "Give us work!" Inside his office, in a palace that dates back to the last of Naples' Bourbon rulers, Mayor Maurizio Valenzi, 70, was trying to explain his city's problems over the din of the protesters. Valenzi is anything but a Bourbon; he is, in fact, a Communist, one of a score of Communist mayors elected to office in major Italian cities in the party's wave of election victories in 1975 and 1976. Like most of the others, he is decidedly...
...created by America's all-purpose early alert system. Day after day the air bleats and print blinks with warnings and alarms. Cancer alerts have become almost as commonplace as weather reports. Strictures on how to avoid heart attacks pop up everywhere. Preventive campaigns stir up a constant din of sermons against careless driving, against starting fires, against getting too fat. It is like the continual murmur of doom's own voice...
...Crimson hoopsters marched off the floor to the cheerful din of the Harvard marching band, they were already looking confidently toward their next contest...
...din of an ecstatic Crimson locker room, an anonymous shout said it all: "We can beat anyone!" Then coach Billy Cleary stood up and added, "All you boys get some rest and do some studying." Harvard 4, University of New Hampshire 1, at Durham, N.H. Scoring Harvard 0 2 2--4 UNH 0 1 0--1 Saves Wade Lau (H) 14 8 17--39 Greg Moffett...