Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they went, and smashed the slanted windows of the tower. Six rioters shinnied through the broken windows and proceeded to batter radar and communications consoles. Five frightened technicians who had been in the tower fled to the roof, from which they were evacuated by a police helicopter. The swift demonstration paralyzed Narita. Casualties numbered 34 police and 20 demonstrators injured, including one youth who was severely burned when a fire bomb exploded prematurely in his hand...
Meanwhile, there's lots of good "stuff" (says West Coast correspondent Chuck Barris, our candidate for the Elvis Look-Alike Contest) in the Boston area to keep you kiddies off the street until reading period. Closest to home is Tom Paxton, appearing at Jonathan Swift's on April 9. If you're up for journeying into Boston, the Paradise is featuring Willy Alexander and the Boom Boom Band on April 6, and none other than Carly Simon April 9-11. Nobody does it better, and at $9.50 it's worth it, if you can afford...
...Paxton and Joanne Cipolla--Jonathon Swift...
...moment of extreme national gravity and a danger for the republic." Added Christian Democratic Deputy Luigi Granelli: "The kidnapers have a political goal-that of destabilizing the country." To cope with what he called "war against the state," Ugo La Malfa, leader of the centrist Republican Party, urged swift enactment of special repressive antiterrorist legislation...
...noncoms from the same outfit, three of them wounded, the fourth ill with the same kind of congestive heart condition that killed Jones, they ship home from the Pacific to a military hospital close by Luxor, a fictional Southern city on the Mississippi. There "the days passed with a swift inexorability that was the essence of a tragedy in a drama." And there the four muddle through a sequence of implausibly pathetic fates. The rushed, bumpy narrative seems less a novel than an outline. One situation is "pretty dire." An approaching party promises to be a "rousing debacle...