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...should never be said that all monopolies are bad per se. Agencies to sell beer mugs, banners, and class rings are natural monopolies concessions, into the proper province of HSA. But the late-evening snack is decidedly sinister. By a pre-HSA ruling of the Committee on Solicitations no delivery men or solicitors are permitted in the Yard or the Houses after dark. The same ruling made an exception for the student sandwich vendors with the little wagons and loud voices. Pizza could also be delivered at night, it was decreed, but only by students. Today the student vendors...
Captain Robert Se'mer, 40, of Falls Church, Va., a Navy jet pilot, was walking with two companions along 47th Street near Third Avenue one evening when a high wind whipped a plank from a nearby building under construction. The plank crashed down on him and severed his right...
Thirsty for anti-social art, they have assumed that a hundred different meanings for a hundred different people are per se an artistic value. Bosley Crowther, well-suited to a supporting role in The Emperor's New Clothes, picks up the chant and after that you can't tell the tabloids from the suave cinema quarterlies without a pretty damn good scorecard...
Strike That Failed. Lima's spunky señoras were lonely voices in Peru last week. Bitter anger may boil beneath the surface, but most Peruvians were taking care not to step on the boots of their country's new rulers. In its first days, the gold-braided military junta that overthrew President Manuel Prado two weeks ago firmly consolidated itself in power, and did it with comparative ease. However much Peruvians might resent the suspension of their constitutional processes, they seemed unwilling to risk bloodshed or civil war over...
...grim, drawn President Prado sat surrounded by his ministers and friends. A door banged open, and in clumped eight tommy-gun-toting men of Peru's elite, U.S.-trained Ranger battalion. "Señor Presidente," announced the colonel at their head, "I have been sent to take you prisoner." Replied Prado: "So be it. I leave under force from a sector of the armed forces." Standing near by, Pedro Beltrán, until recently Prado's Prime Minister and a man who had done much to foster democracy and development in Peru, could not hide his emotion. "Well...