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...jumped 75% in the past four years, furious homeowners forced the city council in July to pass acts that exempt the aged, blind and disabled from some of the increases, and to lop $6,000 off the assessed value of every single-family house. In the upstate New York hamlet of Hardenburgh, residents have dodged the assessor by joining a California mail-order outfit called the "Universal Life Church" and declaring their homes to be churches; they qualify for an exemption on the basis of the U.S. Constitution, which has been interpreted to prohibit the taxation of religious property...
Stormy clouds lowered over the hamlet of Ecône in French Switzerland last week as Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre reached the point of no return in his "traditionalist" insurrection against the Pope of Rome. Some 4,000 Western European followers had flocked in by bus and train, along with 80 priests from round the world. As they sat on wooden benches and freshly mowed grass, the white-haired archbishop delivered a defiant, Luther-like sermon...
...Golf recognized the strengths of the unorthodox stylist: "Do I maintain, the reader may ask, that everyone ought to have the same style? By no means; on the contrary, for you or me to model ourselves on a champion is about as profitless as to copy out Hamlet in the hope of becoming Shakespeare...
...dawn broke, a thick mist rolled across the pastureland around the Dutch hamlet of De Punt, enveloping the motionless yellow train. Inside, nine jittery Moluccan hijackers and 51 exhausted hostages were beginning their 20th day of cold fear together, a grisly endurance record of its kind. At a primary school in the nearby village of Bovensmilde, four other Moluccan terrorists kept four schoolteachers prisoner. Deployed around both the train and the school was an estimated 2,000-man army of crack Dutch commando marines, a special squad of sharpshooters, and armored military-police units...
Spring was still silent in parts of New England and the Midwest, beset by low temperatures and snow. In the tiny hamlet of Sears Pond, near Watertown in northern New York, an incredible 42 in. of snow remained on the ground, but no wonder, since residents there were claiming they had measured an alltime record winter snowfall for an area east of the Rockies: 450 in. Let out of their stalls for the first time in months, local cows kicked up their heels like horses...