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Alaska has a stir and a throb that reaches far beyond the cities, into the tundra, across the forbidding mountains and glaciers, into the valleys. For most Alaskans, each day is a dare, each night a doubtful victory. Territorial Police Superintendent Bob Brandt's meager force of uniformed police and U.S. deputy marshals patrol the vastnesses in planes, helicopters and on dog sleds, alert for signs of old trappers who sometimes die on the trail and are eaten by their dogs; for pillagers who ransack the remote cabins, where a food cache is a guarantee of life...
...corridors, raced up the stairs and rampaged through the 500 government offices. Armfuls of official papers fluttered down from smashed windows. A fully armed company of paratroopers stood idly by, joking with the rioters, accepting beer and sandwiches from ecstatic girls. All at once, there was a martial stir on a second-floor balcony draped with the French Tricolor. A loudspeaker proclaimed: "Silence! An important message from General Massu...
...window. "I don't know how long I will be here," the pastor shouted below. "It is in God's hands." Communist election campaigners accused the townspeople in Fondi of "religious intolerance," and with a national election close at hand, nobody in the government wanted to stir up the anticlerical issue...
...POPES' NEPHEWS DON'T PAY THEIR TAXES, yelled Italy's left-wing (but antiCommunist) weekly L'Espresso. The facts were not that simple, but they were enough to stir Italy's increasingly overt anticlericalism. Don Giulio Pacelli, 47, nephew of Pope Pius XII, has long been a well-known man-about-the-Vatican. A prince and a colonel of the Noble Guard, he has held positions in many offices of the Vatican administration and many Congregations of the Curia. Currently he represents Vatican investments on the boards of the Banco di Roma, and pharmaceutical, shipping...
...expectations. While sales were 1% above a year ago, the board had expected a rise of 6% because of the early Easter. New York stores were up 7%, Minneapolis 6%, Atlanta 4%, but Cleveland, Chicago, St. Louis and Dallas were all down, as much as 3%. Hoping to stir renewed interest. Sears, Roebuck & Co. announced an average 13% price cut in its spring catalogue, said it was adjusting all prices in its retail stores...