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Ovid was banished from Rome for the last nine years of his life, possibly for some act so flagrant that he himself thought it too scandalous to confide to posterity. It can be said of Ovid, as Hilaire Belloc once hoped for himself: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read." Rarely have they read more delightfully than in Humphries' jaunty recreation of the urbane amorist's pagan high spirits...
...patience with this "flagrant" circumvention of the rules snapped, and Trans American was ordered out of business. The company went to court and in December 1956 was refused a rehearing by the Circuit Court of Appeals. Last week, with an appeal pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, Trans American got ready to quit; it leased five DC-6Bs to Eastern Air Lines for $12.8 million for five years, plus the rights to two more planes now on order...
...rainboots and a bourbon on a five-minute, five-a-week local show called Punch Line last week, NBC's Manhattan station WRCA clamped down, announced that it would dock Baylos' $1,000 salary by $675-the price of three ten-second advertising spots. "It was a flagrant violation of policy," explained NBC. "We hope to teach him a lesson." Cried Baylos: "It was only a joke. Why do they pick on a broke little guy like me and never bother the big boys...
Commenting on the meeting, CCA President Don Berlin said: "In a flagrant betrayal of public trust, these elected servants of the public wrapped up a private package deal which makes the infamous 'family night' of four years ago look like a Sunday-School picnic...
...midnight Radio Belgrade announced to the world that the Nagy party had not reached their homes. Under Secretary Vidic protested angrily to the Kadar government: "If the agreement [to return the Nagy group to their homes ] is not implemented, the Yugoslav government will consider it a flagrant violation, not only of the existing friendly relations between the two countries, but also of the generally recognized norms of international...