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Inside, the Paradise Cafe is cramped and dim, furnished with an erratic array of small wooden and linoleum-topped tables. There's a juke box pressed against the front wall that a cluster of waifs and their serene elders stray in to dance around. The bar is on the periphery of Central Square, fairly close to MIT, and it's frequented by locals, mostly, with a sprinkling of students. From the stools under the television a string of posters of the likes of Tiny Tim, W.C. Fields and Jack Palladine is visible, although it is hidden from the opposite side...
...last week 4,000 of the 5,000 Americans living in the city had made their way to the airport in armed caravans and filled outgoing flights to anywhere. U.S. Ambassador G. McMurtrie Godley ordered all families of American officials to leave. U.S. embassy Marines shifted to battle fatigues; stray small-arms fire ripped the building...
...Picnic at the Radcliffe Yard. Another casual get-together annually spoiled by pretensions. Aside from avoiding those people who refuse to let the topic of conversation stray beyond the recently read German translation of Camus, you now must contend with the group of Wellesley women carted in to appease the males. The beginning of open exploitation season for women at Harvard...
...Papers rarely stray into the crabby waters of hard news, but for years Rattiner has been campaigning to save the 1795 Montauk Lighthouse from demolition. The lighthouse was finally designated an official landmark, and this month a citizens' group presented a proud Rattiner with a plaque inscribed IN APPRECIATION. Notes Rattiner wryly: "For what, it doesn...
...require a license. Since this all takes place while the bank is being robbed, it is subsequently suggested to Clouseau by his chief inspector that the beggar may well have been a lookout. Dumbfounded, Clouseau does not mention that while the robbers made their getaway, he picked up a stray bit of currency that the brigands had dropped from the bundle and even stopped traffic for the getaway...