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...matter of listening to Radio Moscow. These demonstrators here obey a central agency in New York." He touched on the same theme an hour later when, during his speech in a room of the Harvard Club, chants of "Viva Allende" were clearly audible from the 200 protesters on the pavement outside. "Your opinion groups are being led by foreign ideologies. Some words they are saying I've heard in San Francisco, Princeton, Berkeley, Europe, the Middle East, everywhere there are groups saying the same thing...
...bizarre twilight world but within this world they have dignity and command respect. Bijou stares at the camera forthrightly, without embarrassment or shame. When Brassai does choose to comment, it is most likely to be in the form of a juxtaposition of incongruous images--a derelict lying on the pavement under a huge advertisement for salad dressing or a close up of the large and powerful hind quarters of a horse cleaved by a gaily braided tail...
...first Baltimore police, who are also members of the AFSCME, limited their protest to a time-consuming slowdown, carefully measuring how many inches cars were parked from the curb and filling out lengthy lost-property reports for pennies picked up off the pavement. One cop took particular delight in ticketing the chauffeur of Mayor William D. Schaefer for changing lanes without signaling...
There is no shortage of well-meaning people in British Novelist James Hanley's latest book: bobbies judges, probation officers and clergymen, even a kind neighbor who wants to befriend Mrs. Biddulph, after being shaken by the sight of her friend lying broken on the pavement. Mrs. B. rejects them all, apparently because they cannot substitute anything as authentic as her own bitter loneliness...
Rumbling down the dark pavement near midnight, four olive drab trucks pulled up to the headquarters gate of Argentina's 10th Armored Cavalry Regiment of Azul, 170 miles southwest of Buenos Aires. A guard routinely challenged the lead truck-and was cut down by a hail of bullets. By the time government troops could counterattack, 60 to 70 "soldiers," all in army fatigues and full battle gear, had stormed into the officers' quarters. They held their position for seven hours, long enough to kill Base Commander Colonel Camilo Gay and his wife. Then they took Lieut. Colonel Jorge...