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...Paulo area, where the disease has struck hardest, the death rate was still high. Estimates of the total number of cases there rose to 20,000 and deaths to as many as 3,000, but firm figures were unobtainable, partly because of censorship. In Porto Alegre, and in communities as far north as the Amazon, the disease was still on the increase...
TIME Correspondent Christopher Byron was at the tiny fishing village of Porto Ran, 20 miles from Athens, when a small coastal steamer brought the prisoners to the mainland. "On hand to greet them was a crowd of over 2,000 screaming, weeping Athenians," Byron reported. "As the ship was sighted over the horizon, the crowd roared, 'Greece's heroes! Long live democracy! Poison to the E.S.A. dogs!' When the prisoners-journalists, educators, politicians, actors-came down the cargo ramp, thousands of arms hugged them. Many of them were pale and undernourished. They were showered with flowers...
Ormasa gave Yale a 1-0 first half lead, then got the actual game winner in the second half. Each team had 16 shots with the goalies, Mark Porto of Dartmouth and Ken Pasternak of Yale, making eight saves apiece...
...Dartmouth defense anchored by goalie Mark Porto, who has been outstanding will be hard pressed to stop the Crimson scoring combine. The balance of the Harvard offense prevents any defense from keying on a particular player and the precision passing which accounted for what Munro called four of the most perfect goals you`d ever want to see" against the Big Red max be impossible to stop...
...game of tennis and was banished from Rome. There ensued four bizarre years of flight and intermittent patron age, as Caravaggio blundered in and out of scrapes in Naples. Malta and Sicily, executing masterpieces on the run. In 1610 he died of malaria in the fishing village of Porto Ercole. while trying to sneak back into Rome. He was 36 years old. His public career, with all its ruinous vicissitudes, had lasted less than 20 years. But he had produced some of the most influential paintings in Europe...