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...trial of former United Mine Workers President W.A. (Tony) Boyle began last week in the Philadelphia suburb of Media, Pa., evidence in the form of a .38-cal. revolver and a carbine rested ominously on a table. No less dramatic was the opening statement by Prosecuting Attorney Richard A. Sprague: "We will show how a family named Yablonski was murdered. The defendant here is the man who used the money from the United Mine Workers, from the sweat and blood of the miners of America, to pay for these murders. We will go step by step up the ladder until...
...politics. His latest book, La Tête d'Obsi-dienne, is a bestseller in France, even though it is heavily philosophical. In it, he reflects on art and civilization-Eastern, Western, African, pre-Columbian, prehistoric. TIME Correspondent Paul Ress visited the author in the Paris suburb of Verrières-le-Buisson, where he lives in a villa surrounded by sweeping lawns and old cedars. Ress's report...
...young gas meter reader. I call him Conrad Swibel. He says, "Oh, you gotta fight those dogs off. But every once in a while, say in the summer time, in a suburb out there, these young housewives, they're sunning themselves, you know? And she's in a bikini, you know, and her back is to the sun, lying on her stomach, and the bra is loose. And I go up close and I say, 'GAS METER READER!' She turns around, and I see a lot, you know. She says, 'Why didn't you announce yourself?!' And I say, 'Well...
...Bundestag building in Bonn, mobs of frenzied women raced through the corridors cutting off the neckties of male deputies in a symbolic castration proclaiming the traditional theme of "the day women rule." Similar scenes occurred in other government and business offices all over Bonn. In Beuel, a working-class suburb of the capital, women stormed the town hall, using a borrowed circus elephant to drive a wedge through the crowds...
...training them carefully. Today 15% of the company's some 260 managers are Saudis. They mingle easily in the company's headquarters town of Dhahran, where Aramco has created a neighborhood of ranch-style houses and tree-lined streets that look a bit like a suburb of Houston...