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...tribute Dame Sibyl exacted from the islanders included the traditional tenth sheaf of all cereals harvested and a live chicken each year as tax on every kitchen chimney on her tenants' houses. Even so, she observed with her usual wryness, "they only give me the thinnest and oldest." Other seigneurial privileges included the right to keep bitches, forbidden to the Sarkese for fear that a proliferation of dogs might drive sheep over the island's 300-ft. cliffs into the English Channel. That noble prerogative caused one of the rare Sark rebellions against Dame Sibyl's authority...
Dave Van Ronk is coming back to town this week after a long absence, and he'll be at Passim's in the Square starting Thursday. Van Ronk must be pushing 45 or so by now; he's the oldest and best folksinger around, a dominant if little-known figure for 15 years. He's good at everything--old spirituals, jugband stuff, political songs, love songs, even messing-around songs, and is a master of the acoustic guitar without being a showoff about it. Van Ronk is playing with June Millington, formerly of Fanny, and the show looks like easily...
...Years. Nonetheless, it threw into stark relief the uncertain future facing the country. Europe's oldest dictator, after almost 40 years of ironfisted rule, has no obvious successor. There were fears, however exaggerated, that his death could touch off the kind of partisan fighting that engulfed Spain during the Civil War when, as the youngest general in the army, he gained power by overthrowing Spain's republican government...
...oldest of the anti-cancer drugs, methotrexate has been around since 1948. It works by interrupting the cells' reproductive cycle. In low dosages, it has long been effective in controlling leukemia and certain other cancers...
Since then, 40 Big Board firms have liquidated or merged, and the survivors have suffered staggering losses-$47.8 million for the 435 remaining N.Y.S.E. retail firms in April of this year alone. Last week it was the turn of one of Wall Street's oldest houses: W.E. Hutton & Co., founded in 1886, confirmed that it was talking merger with Thomson & McKinnon Auchincloss Kohlmeyer...