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Assuming he escapes that Waterloo, the pool possessor's next problem is a century-old precedent that property owners may be liable for dangerous activity, such as flooding, that takes place on their land and affects adjacent land. The pool owner is exempt only if he can blame a third party or an act of God. Under "nuisance law." which amply covers swimming pools, the neighbors may also sue or enjoin the poolster from all sorts of annoyances-glaring lights, noisy swimmers, noxious chlorine, and bug-breeding stagnant water...
...attempt. Last week another prominent Panamanian was involved in a shooting vendetta-on the receiving end. Lying in a Panama City hospital with severe bullet wounds was Roberto ("Tito") Arias, 45, moneyed husband of British Ballerina Dame Margot Fonteyn, nephew of just-defeated presidential candidate Arnulfo Arias, and proud possessor of a long and varied career in his own right...
...poem. "The Keepsake," reprinted from my book The Breaking of the Day in your issue of April 9. I wish, however, you had printed it the way I wrote it. I took especial care over the last lines: "Could any man / So burdened not cringe with pride, possessor of / So shinning, so ineradicable a sorrow?" Would you agree that "ineradicable" (my word) does not carry the same meaning as its opposite, "eradicable" (your word)? Peter Davison
...burdened not cringe with pride, possessor...
...most unfortunate tendencies of the Harvard-educated man is his tendency to look behind every simple occurance for some deep hidden meaning. This sort of suspicious symbol-seeking mentality might well lead its possessor to look behind yesterday's charming account of Angria's St. Simparootieville's Day festivities as some sort of St. Valentine's Day parable. They could, that is, if they did not remember that today, not yesterday, is St. Valentine...