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...said. Thomas Paine of the Pennsylvania Magazine has published an article arguing that the slave, "who is proper owner of his freedom, has a right to reclaim it, however often sold." Adds Dr. Benjamin Rush, a leader of a Philadelphia antislavery movement: "The plant of liberty is of so tender a nature, that it cannot thrive long in the neighborhood of slavery...
After three previous tries at love and marriage, crotchety Crooner Frank Sinatra is announcing his willingness to fall into the tender trap once more. Frank, 60, who enjoyed matrimony successively with Childhood Sweetheart Nancy Barbato and Actresses Ava Gardner and Mia Farrow, has promised he will soon be getting to the church on time with Barbara Marx, in her forties, a former Las Vegas showgirl, model and ex-wife of the Marx Brothers' Zeppo. "Yes, it's true, but it's nobody's goddam business," grumped Frank last week, suggesting that he had had high hopes...
...administration of power," said Moro, adding that he could no longer withstand the opposition he received. Without even bothering to call the confidence vote-defeat was, after all, a certainty-the Premier held a crisp last meeting with his Cabinet, then set off in his blue Alfa Romeo to tender his resignation to President Giovanni Leone at the Quirinale Palace. There Moro requested the showdown that he had maneuvered for weeks to avoid and that he had called "not our choice, but a rigorous and difficult duty." Moro recommended to Leone that he not try to form a new government...
...control. "Fool to Cry" (available as a single) is a slow, haunting ballad heavily tinged with a soul orientation. An undulating string filled (string synthesizer) arrangement builds with the song as a lonely Jagger talks, cries and confesses. This, and the album's other ballad, "Memory Motel," a tough-tender song about life on the road, may be the most important works on the album, in signifying the direction the Stones are moving. These songs--intensely personal in their lyrics and musically straightforward--recall the autobiographical nature of early Jagger-Richard compositions, though the earlier adolescent experiences, the arrogance...
...remembering all this, I feel myself curled up snugly in old mother wallabies [sic] pouch. My little claws nestle round my furry cheeks. Is mother wallaby soft and tender to her little one? He will come and lick her poor lean mangy face. When you are at your worst do you think of Mrs Lyttleton, Mrs Crum, or me. Think this out. When you wake in the night, I suppose you feel my arms round...