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Rita was the subject of several abusive wish-poems because, in the true spirit of writing "anything," she expressed her desire for all of the boys in the class to jump in the lake. I didn't let anybody know about Rita, but ripples of rumor turned into waves of discontent: "I wish Rita with/her fat self shut her/garbage mouth and/turn into a fat white rat." Now I attempted to curb this bickering with a wish poem containing a color and a T.V. show. Most of these kids spend a lot of time watching television; some of them are allowed...
...brother Laurance put up $60,000 to produce a critical biography of former Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg, who was running against Rocky for Governor at the time. It was written by Political Hatchet Man Victor Lasky, who had previously collected and pasted together every anti-Kennedy rumor he could find in his 1963 book, JFK: The Man and The Myth...
...when a political crisis coincides with an economic crisis, reports TIME'S Rome Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante, indifference disappears. Last week President Giovanni Leone undertook ritualistic consultations toward the formation of a government to succeed the fallen center-left coalition of Premier Mariano Rumor...
...Milan, protesters are refusing to pay increases in rents, bus fares and schoolbook charges. In nearby Monza last week, Pietro Russolillo, a 50-year-old schoolteacher, dramatically drove up to the police station to turn himself in for not paying the una tantum, or onetime surtax that the Rumor government imposed on 12 million cars. "I am ready to pay ten times the amount," declared Russolillo with a flourish, "but first you must persuade me that the money will be put to proper...
...Rumor has it and common sense would tend to confirm that the new Bach Society will be better than the last. The talented new conductor, Hugh Wolff, promises a real symphonic sound in concerts spanning the spectrum of music history. This Saturday the Bach Society presents Harvard's first orchestral concert, featuring Richard Kogan, winner of last year's HRO concerto competition, in Beethoven's 4th. Concert-goers, take heed of this auspicious occasion. Karen Hsiao...