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...January, compared with the 60% commanded by the morning Inquirer (circ. 424,000). After losing $21.5 million in 1981, the Bulletin was dropping nearly $3 million per month when Charter gave up. Said Publishing Analyst John Morton: "Anyone trying to sell a newspaper in that condition would need a mask...
...until recent times"-without it, most European culture up to about 1600 could fairly be called primitive. Above all, the word cannot mean crude or inarticulate. Few European medieval ivory carvings are as exquisitely realized, in detail and in the round, as the Met's ivory Bini mask of a Nigerian ruler; and the technical finesse of pre-Columbian gold ornaments, brought back by the conquistadors from South America, astonished Albrecht Dürer in the 16th century as much as it does us today...
After all this winding, the plot should tick toward the hour of denouement. Instead, The Villa Golitsyn keeps exploding. Its cloak-and-dagger trappings mask a quest that is much more serious and dangerous than the entrapment of a possible spy. Before his mission is completed, Milson is forced to test his own flexible, contemporary morals in a series of severe challenges. He becomes, however unwillingly, a student of Christian theology and then its potential victim. Near the end, he must save either himself or his conscience...
January 29, 6:40 p.m.--An employee at the Holyoke Center garage told University and Cambridge police that a Black male wearing a ski mask and carrying a .38 caliber reveiver approached the toll booth and demanded money. The employee gave him $100, but the man demanded the blue bag containing the booth's bank deposit of $600. The employee gave the man the bag, and the man fled up the ramp to Holyoke St., turning at the top of the ramp to fire a shot at the booth and take off his mask. He then fled up Mt. Auburn...
Cambridge police spokesmen said yesterday that officers recovered the ski mask and the bullet. No arrests have been made...