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...morning last week, in the little town of Sosúa (pop. 10,000) on the Dominican north coast. Dr. Alejo Martinez, 32, a physician, answered a knock on his door. Submachine guns chattered, and Martinez fell dead on the porch. About the same time, in downtown Sosúa, a telephone call sent an office clerk named Pedro Clisante, 28, put-putting away on his motorbike on an errand that would take him past a military post. As Clisante approached, a soldier blasted him off his bike. Two days earlier, near the provincial capital of Santiago, Epedio...
...Philippines the singers left a gala reception in Manila to give unscheduled concerts in the countryside. The sang in a small church in the town of Plaza, and again from the porch of a schoolhouse in a nearby village...
...audience, according to Currier, regularly shows up smashed to the gills. Unselfconsciously recalling the rocky seasons before he joined Alcoholics Anonymous, he says that for years he himself was a drawing card: "They used to come to the Playhouse to see if I'd fall over the porch banister...
...have to know how it's going to end; beginnings are just like pulling straws." She filled in the rest in "batches and binges" in Baton Rouge, La., Yaddo and Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Reno, Denver, Hollywood, Manhattan, Roxbury, Conn., last month finished up in a glass-enclosed sun porch that overlooks the harbor in Pigeon Cove, Mass. by adding 20 words to the final page...
...pull out and head for the cities. The population dropped from 8,841 in 1920 to 6,278 in 1940 to 3,370 today. It is falling still. Says Mrs. Grace Beazley, a county health worker: "Our families are just an old man and his wife sitting on the porch together...