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Last week the Communist Yangtze Daily had to eat some of its glowing words about the model residents of Hsi Shui. "Backward peasants and disgruntled Communist cadres," armed only with sticks and swords, had swept into the village land reform offices, killed the Communist boss and several of his henchmen. They were tired, the revolters shouted, of being the victims of land reform...
...henchmen of a Boston councilman offered to break Correspondent Jeff Wylie's head if he tried to publish a picture of their boss. Chicago Correspondent Robert Schulman interviewed the mother of a politician, was told...
...Lacson's. Governor Lacson was suspended; A civil affairs team was ordered to gather evidence, piece by piece. Last week Magsaysay thought he had what he wanted. Justice Department representatives walked into the court in the provincial capital and filed charges against Governor Lacson and 25 henchmen, including three local mayors, two local chiefs of police. The charge was murder...
First-nighters sat through the first act in a ho-hum mood, but the second brought them to life with Billy's fight with one of Claggart's henchmen and Claggart's bitter monologue rejoicing in his own depravity -sung by Basso Frederick Dalberg. Britten's triumph was the third act, in which Captain Vere (Tenor Peter Pears) walks to Billy's door, accompanied by long-measured chords, to deliver the death verdict. When the curtain fell for the act, there were seconds of silence, and then shouts of "Bravo, Benjy." Billy's fourth...
...figures sprawled on his desk at Labor's headquarters and announce with a sudden happy smile: "Well, whatever's happened, we've secured the biggest vote of any party in history.'' "We'll be back again in six months." said one of his henchmen. "Well, maybe not six. but anyway 18," said another...