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...festival's center, filled for ten days with a bizarre collection of European filmmakers, promoters, and journalists, was the Campo S. Marguerita, one of the friendly public spaces that suddenly open out of the city's alley-like streets into irregular areas of pavement edged with small cafes and trattoria, centered with a carved stone well-head that once furnished the neighborhood with water, and filled, in between, with the sleek, lurking cats that for some reason resemble fish, with kids kicking a soccer ball of the walls or, early in the day, with vegetable stands...
Long advocates of individual rights and freedoms, the Liberals have been translating their rhetoric into action by becoming more involved in community politics. As a result, they have been mockingly dubbed "pavement politicians." But they have set their sights higher than that. As Leader Thorpe points out: "If the voters trust us on the local issues, there is a chance they'll follow us on the national ones...
...July. "It was suddenly like having banshees wailing in my ear," the baker recounted. "They kept screaming while two of them took my arms and one jabbed my back with what felt like a knife blade. They made me kneel down with the side of my face against the pavement, and they took everything I had. Then one of them took her foot and crushed my head against the pavement...
...most famous exploit to date is its connection with the bugging of Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex (see story, page 20). So far, the C.R.P. promise outruns performance. The President himself has questioned a C.R.P. claim that 125,000 youths are ready to hit the pavement for Nixon, and at a recent breakfast of state chairmen, complaints about the committee flew thick and fast. New York State Republican Chairman Charles Lanigan told of being phoned by a C.R.P. aide who asked him whether the Governor of New York is elected or appointed...
...Shankill district is a Protestant Bogside, barricaded and bellicose. Just off the Shankill Road, past a checkpoint of steel pipe driven into the pavement, is the headquarters of C Company, Ulster Defense Association. ¶Company patrols, some riding Land Rovers, mount round-the-clock guard over the area's narrow back streets. From C Company headquarters, a two-way radio network keeps the patrols in contact, while a clandestine broadcasting station-named Radio Free Nick, for nearby Nixon Street-keeps up local residents' morale with pop-record requests and Orange marching songs. ¶Company is one of eleven...