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Werther's suicide for the love of Lotte inspired an epidemic of self-immolation in Germany in the 1770s, but history does not repeat itself in Lucio. True, he is in despair-life in Fascist Italy is intolerable and Beate refuses to sleep with him-but he is seeking ways to survive. Beate, on the other hand, wants to "carry despair to its logical conclusion, suicide." Their encounter, Lucio observes, had not been love, but death at first sight. Beate yearns for a suicide pact with Lucio that would be modeled on what she regards as an ideal death...
...Craigie Arms will set a policy for the future," she added. "This is a case they can't ignore, because it's an instance that will repeat itself...
Moses initially refused to repeat his arguments yesterday to the group gathered outside his office, saying "I had a discussion yesterday; this does not appear to be a discussion...
...American conglomerates. Says Charles Craypo, a Cornell professor who has studied Litton's union relations: "Conglomerate structure gives the employer an institutional advantage over unions that can be exercised effectively." If Litton is ruled a single employer, the whole company, under proposed legislation, could be listed as a repeat violator of labor laws and lose all its Government contracts. Last year Litton Industries was awarded defense contracts worth $1.3 billion...
...Congress, Florida Democratic Representative Claude Pepper, 82, was reported by Washington Correspondent Hays Gorey, a veteran political reporter who nonetheless admits to some initial misgivings about the assignment. "When I started interviewing Pepper," says Gorey, "I had in mind the stereotype of the aged: I feared that Pepper would repeat himself, that he would have forgotten things. I thought that I would have to look up dates for everything he talked about. How wrong I was. Pepper can reel off dates, names and long-ago events with startling accuracy. As one of the men who planned the third-term candidacy...