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...casual eye, the tiny (50-sq.-mi.) Italian island of Pantelleria has little to recommend it. Halfway between Sicily and North Africa, it has no beaches, no good harbors, no scenic little coves and no vegetation to speak of. Its one town looks like a slum-clearance project, and its 8,240 people are among the poorest in Italy. Volcanic springs, more like oversized tea kettles than proper Ve-suviuses, gurgle and smolder in the interior and, from shore to barren shore, there is not a drop of water fit to drink. Water, like almost all the island...
Sprague held his tongue. But he finally decided to let loose after a local newspaper revealed that Fitzpatrick personally went into court to recommend probation for one Joseph F. Nardello, who had been convicted of receiving stolen goods. Sprague had wanted to recommend 21/2 to 5 years, but Fitzpatrick preferred the probation in exchange for Nardello's agreement not to attack the conviction. Newspapers then suggested another possible Fitzpatrick motive: they charged that the D.A. had once represented Nardello when in private practice...
Besides, it keeps getting worse. I might recommend it as a symbol of the world in general, in fact--except that I don't want to sound discouraged so soon before New Year's. So maybe it is more like President Ford: it started off as amiable idiocy, but the joke is wearing fast...
...commission's decision to recommend placing Leonard's letter in her file went beyond this recognition, and challenged the grade she received in the course. Leonard contended that Samkange had been prejudiced against her after the incident; on the face of it, her complaint is plausible, since all five other students in Afro 115b received As or A-minuses while she received a C. And Dean Whitlock explained last week that in such a case the commission has to determine not whether a complaint is correct but whether it is plausible. But commission members never spoke to Samkange...
...that fasting is of little practical use unless money thus saved is sent to relief agencies or any surpluses created are somehow transferred to the hungry. A cutback in U.S. eating habits, even if sustained, will not automatically put grain on the table in Ethiopia or India. Thus churchmen recommend that Christians also get involved in political action to force increases in Government purchase and shipment of food to hungry countries...