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...daughter of Ezra Pound, for the woman who lived the life of a peasant foundling before discovering a larger world of harsher realities, it is not pretentious but compelling and revelatory to write of age-old plots being played out in the 20th century but "Somewhere between Mamme and Tatte's world on earth and God in Heaven there was an island of demigods not ruled by human laws. Here the range of imagination was wider, feelings more passionate and ruthless....Every myth I came to know, I believed in, and lived through, giving it new twists...
Choice of Grub. Breaking a traditional reticence, top officers of Scotland Yard seemed to be starting a campaign aimed at building public support for harsher treatment of criminals. In what the London Times called "a rare and remarkable statement of police philosophy," two senior Scotland Yard officers sharply criticized the politicians and courts for what they termed excessive leniency. Said Peter Brodie, assistant commissioner in charge of crime investigations: "My colleagues and I remember when a villain got a whacking sentence and was sent to Dartmoor. There he got flogged, he broke stones and he sewed mailbags. After...
...weeks ago attended by all Soviet bloc countries except Rumania. In what was read by observers as an outgrowth of that conference, Literaturnaya Gazeta, a leading Soviet weekly, last week reprinted a Polish article rebuking Rumania for taking a neutral position in the Chinese-Soviet dispute. In an even harsher tone-the official Hungarian daily Magyar Hirlap reported that Chinese Premier Chou En-lai would visit Albania, Yugoslavia and Rumania this fall. Since all three nations have asserted varying degrees of independence from Moscow, the Budapest paper warned that Chou's junket "has an anti-Soviet edge...
...hold down unreasonable demands from the rank and file. The growing fear is that in the absence of an even relatively mild "incomes policy" (for example, nonmandatory wage and price guidelines and at least strong verbal attacks by the President against excessive increases), there will be pressure for harsher measures. These might include a temporary wage freeze or even outright controls...
...help them find a lawyer and notify their parents. At last count there were 747 young Americans in foreign jails, all on charges of possession of and trafficking in drugs. Hirsute amateur capitalists who are caught trying to turn hash into cash find that penalties are generally harsher abroad than...