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...only intuits at various times.) Out of the first characteristic can come reformism and perhaps even a type of democratic socialism: but out of the second comes the most interesting feature of the American working class--its revolutionary opposition to capitalism reflected in a culture that hallows a distant and mythical past existing prior to capitalism, a Jeffersonian past...
LIFE is gone. Those haleyon days have passed into history when a photograph of some great moment or new and distant place could hold a nation transfixed and absorb all the energies of talented photographers...
...Jackal. That night the anxiety turned out to be misplaced only in geography. Once again the murderer struck, but this time some six miles from Skid Row. The eighth victim, George Frias, 45, a catering-service secretary, was found in his modern first-floor Hollywood apartment on distant North Kingsley Drive, but he had worked near where the other victims were slain. His throat, too, was slit. A ninth man, also presumed to be a victim of the Slasher, was discovered two days later less than a mile away in another Hollywood apartment...
...cope with an inflation rate of 30%, land and labor reforms, and a cumbersome bureaucracy. A political moderate who served as ambassador to the U.S. during World War II and was Prime Minister once before for a brief period in 1945, he is a strong monarchist and a distant cousin of the King...
Bertha Cohen died in 1965, leaving no will and few close relatives. A distant nephew was named executor of the estate after a five-year court battle and he quickly disposed of the property on the open market. Harvard and developer Max Wasserman, a close friend and high school chum of Eddie Crane's, both bid on the property, with Wasserman coming out the winner...