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...injury and ferocious pride, is one of the most gripping stories in modern popular fiction. Despite its cast of venal monsters and hired killers, The Godfather offered a nostalgic view of the embattled family defending and enriching itself in a ruthless world. Don Corleone even became a Pop father figure???a fascinating inversion of Walter Cronkite?whose distinctively throttled voice conveyed authority, sincerity and trust...
That time is now past, and there is no doubt that its passing will adversely affect Communist morale. Ho was an impressive figure???the only truly national leader that Viet Nam has produced in modern times?and he will be missed.' In Hanoi, faces were somber and black bands of mourning appeared on thousands of sleeves. A crowd formed before Ba Dinh Congress Hall, where his body lies in state. The clandestine Viet Cong Radio, echoing Hanoi broadcasts, reported that the new wave of attacks in the South last week had been launched "to change sorrow into a revolutionary...
...handouts, dozens of propositions from art pushers, and an offer from an Englishwoman to sell him a 150-year-old pub. By dint of his business acumen, his acquisition of great art and his generosity in lending that art through the Norton Simon Foundation, he has become a national figure???whether he wanted...
...ever are the restrictions on industrial alcohol. H. R. 13,312, with many a change in definition, does nothing more than set up a complete legal exception for 3.2% beer from the 18th Amendment. To raise revenue it taxes the new beer $5 per bbl.?the brewers' chosen figure???thus wiping from the dead-letter revenue law the old $6 rate. Brewers must pay $1,000 for a Federal license, wholesalers $50, retailers $20. By legislative silence distribution is left entirely to State control. The interstate shipment of 3.2% beer into Dry territory is punishable by $1,000 Federal...
...Governor Meyer, perhaps more than any other man, who shaped President Hoover's general policy of relief?a whole battery of credit clubs to be kept swinging in every direction. Out of Governor Meyer's economic experience and wisdom came the figure???$2,000,000,000?of what was needed to make R. F. C. a real treat to the intangibles of this Depression. His ideas and those of Mr. Baruch run along parallel lines. These two and President Dawes are expected to be the three strong and active men on R. F. C.'s directorate...