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Vellucci avoided conscious humor in an effort to explain his role as a dedicated public servant, "representing the people of Cambridge." Vellucci explained, "I do not represent Harvard, Brattle Street, the rich people, or any other group; I represent the poor guy who needs my help." Vellucci continued, "It's nothing new to me to be woken up at 3 a.m. to get a drunk out of jail and back to his family...
...culpable as the publishers may be. the key to the newspaper strike remains Bert Powers and his Big Six local. The son of a Massachusetts civil servant, Powers was brought up during the period of "relief money, dried fruit, surplus food stamps, and using the public library for entertainment." He got his first taste of unionism when, at 17, he went to work for a Boston printer for $16 a week. At an I.T.U. local meeting one day, says Powers, a man who was campaigning for union office "told the membership to go easy on contract demands because he knew...
High Twisting. Because of the eternal servant problem, many chalet parties end up at one of the town's three fine restaurants. Newest nightspot, and wildest by far, is Le Chesery, built last year for $575,000 by the Aga's Uncle Sadruddin Khan. Featuring a Cuban band imported from Montparnasse, the club encourages nightlong twisting, and unlike the rival Palace Hotel requires no necktie. The Gstaad old guard are not quite sure they approve; a group of rich young Greeks recently brawled over a girl at a Chesery party, ended by stripping her to her black lace...
...American conductor - a temperamental twin to the operatic tenor - has shared the orchestra's celebrated status; some, indeed, have defined it. In Europe, many a conductor has become a stoop-shouldered civil servant or a traveling virtuosity show. But in the U.S., a first-rank conductor can settle down comfortably, find a sympathetic barber to whom it seems reasonable that he must look even better from the back than he does from the front, and seize the authority to make music in his own style...
...hosts and wine made by letting grapes and raisins ferment in a glass. In 1953 his hard-labor sentence was reduced to house arrest in Lvov, but two years later, Slipyi was shipped to a Siberian old people's home, where he was put to work as a servant...