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Moscow's sobering warnings helped Kania curb his radicals and marshal a safe, moderate centrist majority at a crucial party congress in July. The party reformers were still strong enough to purge most of the old Central Committee, and only five top party officials, including Kania and Jaruzelski, were reelected. But control stayed in the hands of Kama's centrists, who, under pressure from Solidarity, had allowed an amount of freedom in Poland that would have been unthinkable just twelve months before...
Throughout his career, Italian culture buzzed with manifestoes, claims and counterclaims. Before World War I, the Futurists tried to marshal art into a relentless machine-age spectacle. In the '20s and '30s, Mussolini and his cultural gang strove to co-opt Italian modernism into Fascist propaganda-dynamism, simplification. By the late '40s and '50s, socialist realism (especially in Bologna, which prided itself on its worker traditions) was trying, amid clouds of polemic, to become the house style of Italian art. All through this, Morandi stayed where he was, looking at his plain table of dusty bottles...
...seats reserved for the press were full, and so were the 175 places for spectators. A lonely demonstrator wandered in and out of the courthouse in a monkey suit. But U.S. Marshal Charles Gray was not impressed by the hubbub. "When this is all over," he reflected, "it won't have changed anyone's mind." Gray surely has it right. The federal trial that began last week in Little Rock, Ark., will lead to a legal ruling on whether "creation science" (secular evidence for, among other things, the supernatural origin of the universe) may be required in public...
Three days after the escape, a woman paying a $35 fine in a San Diego traffic court found she was short of cash. She asked the deputy marshal to call for her companion. Out went the cry: "Paging Raynard DeLeon, paging Raynard DeLeon . . ." DeLeon, an auto thief, was cocky enough to come when called, but he too was broke. He said he would return as soon as he could raise the money...
Meanwhile, the obliging deputy marshal, Gary Mahaffey, 27, thought DeLeon's name sounded familiar. A police team at the courthouse was alerted, and when DeLeon returned (in a stolen car) three hours later, they had their man. His girlfriend, impatient, had already gone home without him. Smart move: he had been unable to scrounge up the money anyway...