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...first Alessandro's great-grandson, 23-year-old Don Alessandro Carlo Paolo Giulio Augusto Francesco Romano Torlonia, Prince Torlonia, Prince of Fucino, Prince of Canino and Musignamo, Duke of Ceri, Marquess of Romavecchia. To prevent Torlonia tenants from acquiring any permanent rights to their land, the family has forbidden them to plant trees or build huts. The Torlonias' armed guard no longer has to rely on the hounds; it rides in jeeps, patrolling day & night, along a 33-mile road surrounding Fucino...
...owners' cards (like Rita and Aly Khan and Beautician Elizabeth Arden Graham) sat in boxes overlooking the Royal Enclosure-but that was a long way from being inside it. These underprivileged souls had some crumbs of comfort. Ladies in the Royal Enclosure may not smoke cigarettes and are forbidden to lean across the fence to place bets with bookies. Last week the ladies in the Royal Enclosure strictly observed the no-smoking rule, although a few were seen betting...
...things forbidden that while the Customs slept
Most Hungarian Jews want to emigrate to Israel, but have been forbidden to do so. Some get out by paying a $750 fee to an underground railroad operated by Zoltan Vas as a sideline. Meanwhile, the Hungarian government, which is negotiating the terms of a trade agreement with Israel, is using the Jews for bargaining purposes. It has declared that it will permit the Jews to emigrate, but with a sharp proviso: the property each emigrant takes with him is balanced off against bananas, lemons and other future imports to Hungary from Israel...
This new biography makes it clear how Emerson struggled to keep close to the common life. It was not easy. Born in Boston in 1803, the son of a preacher, forbidden to play with "rude boys," Ralph Waldo used to hang on the fence, peering down the street in the hope that he would discover what a rude...