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...Whatever will be, will be./ The future's not ours to see." Que Sera, Sera, the 1956 platter, may sound a bit soupy and syncopated today. But when Rock Star Sly Stone, 29, of Sly and the Family Stone, heard the mother of Record Producer Terry Melcher sing it at her very own piano, he was turned...
...long is the complexities rising from the fact that Venice is not one but three different cities. There is the historic town built on 118 alluvial islands in a lagoon, plus two other communities on the mainland: the bleak, modern residential suburb of Mestre, which the daily Corriere della Sera calls a "delirium of concrete," and the huge, fume-filled industrial port of Marghera. Any action to help Venice often turns out to harm her ugly sisters. For example, Venice is sinking in part because the pumping of fresh water from artesian wells in Mestre and Marghera depletes the underground...
There is no sign as yet that French workingmen are ready to join the students in the streets as they did in 1968. But the students may yet make good on the forecast that they chanted through Paris last week: "Chaud, chaud, chaud, le printemps sera chaud!" (It's going to be a long, hot spring...
...ballet, the event of the evening was the shout "Freedom to Viet Nam!" from a woman in the sixth balcony. She was the wife of a Moscow correspondent for the pro-Communist Italian newspaper Paese Sera; she was questioned by police but not arrested. It was the Russian equivalent of the girl who pulled an antiwar sign out of her cleavage in the East Room of the White House. But it was just a fleeting incident, dwarfed by the beauty of the ballet and the approach of the final hours of a summit, the full meaning of which was still...
...York Times column, Tom Wicker searched for an explanation of the assassinations among "violent western movies, the organized violence of professional football, the endless lines outside theaters showing The Godfather" The blasts from overseas were even more extravagant than usual. Said Milan's Corriere della Sera: "The U.S. is built on a structure of violence on every level. It is a perpetual state of siege that affects the whole society, from the mugger who kills a man for $20 in a subway to the B-52 pilot who calmly exterminates thousands of yellow men in order to give liberty...