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Bombs exploded and demonstrators round the world marched in protest on Aug. 23, 1927, the day Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in a Massachusetts electric chair. In the half-century since, the case of the "good shoemaker" and the "poor fish peddler" has continued to stir men's passions. Generations of Americans have wrangled bitterly over whether or not the two admitted anarchists were guilty of shooting two men during a holdup and whether they received a fair trial. Last week Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis signed a proclamation officially stating that Sacco and Vanzetti had indeed been...
...there, scrambling out of the Winnebago and hitting the ground in full gallop, is the candidate himself. So fast does he move that he is inside the store before the storekeeper can stir, blinking in the dimness and striding toward the storekeeper with his hand out, and the storekeeper is shaking his hand as he thinks yes, he is like his pictures, a squat, fat, funny owl of a man, straight black hair combed back from a ruler-edge part, Coke-bottle glasses betting the tiny eyes, the wide, grinning mouth jutting teeth above the weak chin...
...whole thing seems like a scene out of the theater of the absurd. Crews trickle into the oathouse and silently--who has anything to say at 6 a.m.--stir a shell from its sleep, lug it to the edge of the dock and drop it into the river...
...unused portions of the 29 hours of tape. Nixon has approved the sale of a fifth show, although no plans for its airing have been completed. Then of course, there will be the memoirs; one of Nixon's aims in undergoing his ordeal with Frost was to stir interest in his forthcoming book, which is due for publication next year...
...conflict between the two studies has caused a stir not only in academic circles but also in the upper levels of the Carter administration...