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...collar community near Chicago, setting cars ablaze and burning seven people, two of them critically. After police quelled the riots, Mayor Robert Sabonjian, who has steadfastly rebuffed overtures to improve race relations, moved to cut off relief and unemployment benefits to the rioters, ordered the city housing authority to evict some of those arrested. The city also set bond so high that few could be released from jail. Sabonjian called the rioters "animals, junkheads, winos and scum," said that their actions were "not the acts of human beings...
Riddled with guilt and anxiety, Pinter's people are Kafkaesque in that they cannot evade, placate, or even contact the unseen powers. He deals in archetypes that subtly evoke family figures, fathers and sons, brothers and sisters. The two brothers who take in and then evict the scrofulous bum in The Caretaker might be doing it to their own father. Pinter's characters are both strange and familiar with one another, as members of a family are. There is a trace of incest in his plays, and his characters take cover behind a smoke screen of language that...
...Cambridge Board of Zoning Appeal refuses to evict the Coop from its new Palmer St. annex. The City Council approves Harvard's plan to build a pedestrial mall between the Yard and the Law School. Twenty second-year Med students ask for independent study instead of lectures and lab sessions; professors criticize the request as foolish, unwise, and economically unsound. The CRIMSON reports that Cliffies will begin using Lamont next Fall if President Pusey approves. The Harvard Undergraduate Council disapproves, citing "the male emotional stability factor." Only a third of the freshmen polled by the Yardling credit Cliffies with having...
Last month Charles de Gaulle imperiously decreed that he wants all forces belonging to his 14 NATO partners removed from French soil by next April 1. He meant, of course, chiefly the Americans, whose 26,000 troops dwarf other national contingents, but he also intended to evict the NATO military headquarters in Rocquencourt, near Paris. Last week began the inevitable fencing aimed at delaying or modifying the departures. It was led off by some fancy footwork...
Exactly how did le grand Charles plan to evict or take command of SHAPE headquarters outside Paris, 14 U.S. Air Force bases, 26,000 U.S. servicemen, and NATO's complex network of pipelines and storage dumps in France? He was not saying, for part of his plan, in the canny tradition of French diplomacy, was to provoke the U.S. into offering some compromise or alternative before the actual bargaining begins...