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...dances, this month drew 200 sympathizers to a rock concert at M.I.T. Biggest contributions, both of money and equipment, come from well-heeled liberals who support the radicals' drive for peace if not their revolutionary tactics and theories. The big earners among professional radicals, like Hoffman and Rubin, plow most of their profits back into the movement. Then there are "windfalls," like the one at San Francisco State College last year, when radicals seized control of the student-activities fund, amounting to more than $400,000, and parceled out large sums to black militants and an organization that...
Beckwith charged that drug companies use token research to extend their patent rights over the manufacture of particular drugs, and that they "plow back their profits into a campaign of public relations" to monopolize the drug market...
...have tamed and broken the bold spirit of these magnificent people, while molding them into submissiyeness, bears resemblance to the sin of taming all wild stallions to pull a plow and letting the eagle become extinct...
With Regal Elegance. The evening is an unmitigated triumph for Maggie Smith. Her performance ought to be filmed as an instructional visual aide for U.S. actresses. Where they stride like plow jockeys, she moves with regal elegance. Where they mushmouth their lines, she inflects each syllable with sorcery. The luminous high point of the play is a speech that she delivers on the ideal of marriage, one of the greatest speeches in all of dramatic literature on that subject...
...Greek temples of Paestum are surrounded by umbrella pines and artichoke fields, and until recently artichokes were the main preoccupation of Farmer Luigi Franco and his son Francesco. Not any more. Last July Francesco broke a plow on what turned out to be the limestone roof of an ancient Lucanian tomb. Such tombs, decorated with the crude paintings of the local tribesmen who made them, have been found before in southern Italy. But this one was different. When excavated by Archaeologist Mario Napoli, superintendent of antiquities for the district of Salerno, the walls of the tomb were found...