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...eyed. The trip had turned into a clear scoop for the Press, and the paper savored its revenge. The turnabout, however, had been engineered not by the Press, but by Cleveland TV station WEWS, which had also dispatched a team of newsmen to England. They had avoided the swarm of competitors waiting at Falmouth and had set out to sea from Penzance in a $500-a-day fishing trawler. When they were 265 miles out, they spotted Manry, who invited them aboard. They interviewed him for three and a half hours on sound film, then telephoned the gist of their...
Everybody's Grandfather. The really In do not feel sure they are really in until they have spent an evening or part of it at Menotti's 17th century palazzo. Marvels Menotti: "I am regularly faced by an avalanche of princes, princesses, dukes and duchesses, who swarm over my house in their wonderful clothes, eating, drinking and cooking spaghetti in my kitchen. Spoleto was conceived as a small ivory turret, but has turned into a Tower of Babel...
...thorough comprehensive knowledge of natural, civil, commercial, and Province Law, will draw upon me the Esteem and perhaps Admiration (tho possibly the Envy too) of the Judges of both Courts, of the Lawyers and of Juries, who will spread my Fame thro the Province, will draw around me a Swarm of Clients who will furnish me with a plentiful Provision for my own Support, and for the Increase of my fortune. I shall be able to defend Innocence, to punish Guilt, and to promote Truth and Justice among mankind...
...through comprehensive knowledge of natural, civil, commercial and Province Law, will draw upon me the Esteem and perhaps Admiration (the possibly the Envy too) of the Judges of both Courts, of the Lawyers and of Juries, who will spread my Fame thro the Province, will draw around me a Swarm of clients who will furnish me with a plentiful Provision for my own Support, and for the increase of my fortune...
...Like a swarm of angry locusts, the helicopters descended on the soccer field at Dongxoai. Out of them poured Vietnamese rangers, who were greeted by a hail of Viet Cong fire. Three fell within a minute; the rest bolted for a ditch by a road. But one hulking figure, a Leica camera bobbing about his neck, threw himself against a hut and started snapping pictures. In the bloody melee, he took some memorable ones: a ranger as he was hit, his hand clutched to his stomach; a Viet Cong, his head popped up over a bunker to stare with surprise...