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When the rare brutal cop knocks in a son or daughter's (or one's own) teeth after a minor pot bust, if the press has been forced down the drain, then that cop will be around to knock out some more teeth...
...section will allow us to give prominence to a subject that is Topic A on everyone's mind right now." Loeb confesses, incidentally, that the accompanying photograph was taken before he had read the Energy section story that explains why burning wood on the family hearth can actually drain a house of its heat...
...escaped to the West, 20% more than the total for the same period in 1972. This year, the number of escapees is expected to reach 6,500, despite one of the world's most formidable man-made barriers, the Berlin Wall, erected twelve years ago to halt the drain. Last week East Germany's doctrinaire Communist government took steps to stanch some of the flow by staging the finale of a show trial of three West German people-smugglers in an East Berlin courtroom...
Since last spring's lusterless performance at MIT Sha Na Na has undergone some serious renovation. Realizing that performance and image were going down the drain with its new-found success, Sha Na Na has rejuvenated...
Ghost Towns. Partly because of the drain on its resources, partly because of its outmoded economy, Portugal falls further and further behind the rest of Europe. Drawn by higher wages in France and West Germany, 1,600,000 Portuguese workers now live outside their own country, sending their wages home. Since 1960, the population (8,161,000) of the country has actually shown a small decline, and the northern provinces sometimes look as if they had been visited by a plague. Once lively villages are now ghost towns, while others are inhabited only by the old and the young. Recent...