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...Massachusetts politics, has come in for an unprecedented amount of New England fire in recent months. Recent Boston newspaper headlines have fully advertised the frequency of corruption in high (and low) places. Even as Rudolph G. Bessette, director of the state Waterways Division, stood trial this week for alleged "sweetheart deals," scandals in two areas came to light. Yesterday the Boston Finance Commission began investigation of charges that there were rigged bids in a proposed $400,000 purchase of new fire engines. At the same time, the BFC also discovered possible price rigging in the sale of six acres...
Born. To Roger Maris, 26, New York Yankee bleacher-blaster, and Patricia Carveil Maris, 26, his North Dakota high school sweetheart: their fourth child, third son; in Kansas City...
...attending to his duties as the custodian of a temple to Mao (formerly a temple to Confucius) when his room is invaded by a Female Old Tree Trunk (party member of long standing) who is pregnant by a local party boss. She announces that Mah is her new Comrade Sweetheart, and that he will be the "honorary father" of the child she is about to have. It is no use protesting, Mah finds, because the party boss insists on the arrangement...
...Liberation Mah is born, the Tree Trunk disappears, and Cripple Mah sets out with the baby and an old billy goat, which he had purchased under the impression that it was a nanny, to seek his fortune in Peking. It is not long before he is supporting another Comrade Sweetheart. Even in a progressive state, this is one cup of water too many, and soon Mah finds himself in a corrective labor camp, being washed of bigamous thoughts. Everything turns out well, just in time for the second-act curtain. Says San Franciscan Lee, who last saw his native China...
...Scientist Kuprin to escape to America. What begins as an appeal turns, through the vigilance of the U.S.S.R., into some brisk spy-and-counterspy hanky-panky. At the end Kuprin, caught out, swears to stay permanently in the U.S.S.R. in exchange for letting the American and his new Soviet sweetheart-who is Kuprin's cousin-get away...