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...Fort Hill community is seven or eight Victorian, shabby buildings in Roxbury, across from a Revolutionary war monument, "our monolithic symbol." It is made up of about 150 people, "all living in all the houses at once." The community, Liz said, which includes Jim Kweskin of the jug band and Mel Lyman, who considers himself to be a second Jesus Christ, is connected with United Illuminating, which, besides Avatar, makes films, cuts records, and runs building projects in the South...
Though he sometimes appears nettled by the gibes, Wallace generally shows great skill in turning them to his own advantage. "That's all right," he said, motioning toward 25 noisy hecklers in Indianapolis' Monument Circle last week. "Just turn the television on them...
...side in the baroque alleyways of Prague. The Russians surrounded the presidential palace on Hradcany Hill, planted artillery on the heights of Letna Hill, where a mammoth statue of Stalin once overlooked the city. In Old Town Square, they even placed six antiaircraft guns by the Jan Hus monument, the symbol of Czechoslovakia's historic quest for liberty. Everywhere, paratroops in purple berets stood guard alongside tank crews in full battle dress, cradling automatic rifles in their laps. In swiftness of execution, the invasion had been a model military operation. But the occupation was soon to prove quite another matter...
...self-fulfilling because he controls so many successful stations. But the hits he creates, such as Sonny and Cher's I Got You, Babe and The Monkees' Last Train to Clarksville, can seldom be described as creative new works. A Los Angeles underground paper called Drake "a monument to public tastelessness." For better or worse, Drake is going to have more influence before he has less. Next month 21 new client FM stations will receive by mail, on reels pretaped by Drake's staff, their weekly programming. For the stations, it means getting by for much...
...Pony Express. In cities throughout Oklahoma last week, a pair of young businessmen, Thomas Murray, 43, and Darrel Hinshaw, 31, were operating their own private postal system in direct competition with Uncle Sam-and making money at it too. No wonder. The U.S. Post Office these days is a monument to inefficiency, and week after week the catalogue of complaints grows fatter. Curious to learn what was in the badly battered package delivered by the postman, a Cleveland physician ripped off the wrapping and released a swarm of furious bees. Intended for a beekeeper in Columbus, Ga., the parcel...