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...coalition triumph--he won with votes from tenant activists, CCA regulars and elderly voters pried from a lifelong habit of voting for Independents by their fear of condominium conversion. "The initials CCA strike fear into too many hearts in this city to make me think that the CCA per se will ever make major inroads" into building a new coalition, Sullivan says. "My hope is that someday there could be a forum in this city where people like Al Vellucci and people like me could get together to work without social ostracism," Sullivan says. Should such a new coalition develop...
...first planeload of refugees. More important, Castro was furious about the bad publicity Cuba was reaping in the Latin American press. To counter it, he staged a massive rally commemorating the anniversary of the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion. More than a million Cubans marched through Havana, chanting "iQue se vayan!" (let them go) and hoisting signs reading ABAJO LA GUSANERA (down with the worms), a favorite Havana expression about expatriates...
Frank B. Freidel, Warren Professor of American History, said this week he is not leaving, per se, but retiring a year early to accept a newly created post with a total annual endowment of $100,000 at the University Washington in Seattle...
...weekly Paris Match calls it "that big pimple." Minister for the Universities Alice Saunier-Seïté claims that a "horse registered and was accepted." The place, she has declared, "has become a forbidden city where drugs are sold openly for the Paris region." In fact she once sputtered to a Communist senator, "It is what will become of all France if you ever come to power. Vincennes is Italy...
Most cultures think of the limerent as a bit crazy, but you're in good company, Ralph. Stendhal, Héloïse and Henry VIII were limerent. Lord Byron is the best-known dropout from limerence; after the Sturm und Drang with Lady Caroline Lamb, he simmered down. Something worth thinking about, Ralph...