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Maurice Goldblatt is a brash, unpolished little man who dedicated himself at an early age to a relentless pursuit of wealth. He made a pile. In the process, he became one of the ranking merchant princes of Chicago's famed State Street...
Stimulated by this thick overburden (hinting at great age), the archeologists attacked the bluff with dynamite and a bulldozer. By fall they had uncovered stone, bone and antler artifacts (prehistoric scrap pile), and bones of extinct animals (prehistoric garbage dump). They found no human remains, but obviously ancient man had fancied the spot for a long time, chipping his crude weapons and tossing gnawed bones over his muscular shoulder...
...Plan E as a successful experiment became impossible. An aroused but befuddled electorate returned only five of the nine C.C.A. candidates to office and the City Council will limp along on a scant five-to-four majority for two more years. Until the liberal elements in Cambridge can pile up a record imposing enough to knife through class bigotry, they must resign themselves to a never ending battle with those politicians intent on turning the city government into a money tree...
...Cover) At No. 5 rue de Solférino, on Paris' Left Bank, there is a shabby old building, not far from the decayed elegance of the boulevard St. Germain and only a stone's throw from the grey stone pile of the National Assembly. Although three or four young bodyguards, who look like cyclists or soccer players, lounge at the entrance, there is nothing outside the building to identify it-no plaque, no flag, no Cross of Lorraine. No. 5 rue de Solférino is the headquarters of Charles de Gaulle's Rassemblement du Peuple...
...winds sprang up along the tindery countryside, every chimney spark, every pile of smoldering leaves, every discarded cigarette seemed to explode into a forest fire. The New England coast was masked by towering plumes of yellow-white smoke. So were great areas of New York and New Jersey...