Word: sidewalk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bombs & Ambush. In Saigon, Red terrorists, many of whom infiltrated the capital under cover of the Buddhist demonstrations months ago, have been exploding bombs and throwing hand grenades sporadically since the coup. One night last week, a homemade bomb hidden under a table shattered a sidewalk cafe on tree-shaded Tu Do Street, wounding five U.S. soldiers. So far the ruling generals have not been able to police the streets as efficiently as Civilian Diem. One possible reason: the removal of some of Diem's tough Special Forces from the capital...
...talking about in Roccamena last week? Shakespeare, Brecht, Dante, Aeschylus, to name a few of the poets and playwrights whose works were featured in the town's first informal festival of the performing arts. Star performer was Movie Idol Vittorio Gassman, who for two straight nights strode a sidewalk "stage" illumined by car headlights while declaiming passages from Julius Caesar, The Divine Comedy and other works. Whatever they made of it, the Roccamenensi were an appreciative audience...
...some grimly humorous sights: outside the Hotel Caravelle, a Diem policeman seated in a tiny European car struggling desperately to get out of his uniform before the rebels spotted him; a pedestrian dashing madly around a corner, bullets kicking up sparks at his heels; a man scooting into a sidewalk pissoir an instant before it was riddled with machine-gun fire (five minutes later he dashed out unhurt). As tanks whipped off bursts of ammunition, children would duck right under the smoking muzzles to pick up the brass cartridge cases...
...morning last week a sleek black Mercedes limousine with official license plates glided up to the curb; the chauffeur nodded amiably to the plainclothes policeman who had taken up station on the sidewalk during the night. Both beamed as Ludwig Erhard emerged from No. 8 to ride to Parliament and be confirmed as the new Chancellor of West Germany...
...squalor in a Paris working-class district, was abandoned by her mother, and lived in a brothel run by her grandmother. A childhood disease blinded her for four years, and at 16 she gave birth to an illegitimate daughter, who died in infancy. Heartbroken, she began singing outside sidewalk cafés, lived on the coins tossed at her feet...