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...serious thrusts at Leone and at Christian Democrats in general remain vague, unpointed. At the beginning of the story, "the execration index when it came to him (Leone) had risen to eighty-two per cent, as against thirteen per cent for those who hated him and five per cent for those who merely loathed him. . . The parties on the Left considered the Professor the symbol of the arrogance of power. His Christian Democrat friends by now found him an irritating and conceited old man. But the former did not judge it convenient to overthrow him, convinced as they were that...
...negotiated their contract in time for the scheduled opening and when the management begged them, they said nothing doing. No one was moving and the thousands of privileged fans who had waited two years to see the redecorated ballpark weren't getting to their seats. From high above, a thirteen year old boy looked down from a ramp. Obviously he had connections, for he had gotten in early, and was waving his arms at the crowd like a dauphin who thought that the storming of the Bastille was a celebration of his coming coronation. He yelled and took snapshots...
...Thirteen years ago, four young boys from Liverpool disembarked from a BOAC jet in New York. Their hair was long and unkempt; they took the Ed Sullivan Show by storm, and all America soon fell prey to Beatlemania. Well, the boys have grown old now, and an anxious continent waits for their return. Well, I got news. They aren't ever coming back. But guess who's coming on Sunday? No! you say. It can't be true! But it is! Bob Marley and the Wailers are coming to The Music Hall on Sunday...
...campaign to have a large rock on which high school students have inscribed their class dates since 1883 declared a historic monument--to a suburban mayor--who has been involved in a series of racial crises and near-scandals since he took over in 1967--to a lawyer with thirteen kids who incorporated the Ohio Right to Life Society and has in the past run for governor, Ohio attorney general (three times), and U.S. Congress (twice--once successfully as an arch-conservative...
...Thirteen men are seated at the terminals this Saturday night. Most of them are doing their Applied Math 110 homework, a few are working on Physics. One student is smiling and chatting--he's the terminal monitor. "If I had my way," he says, "this place would be closed down on Saturday nights." He describes the Saturday night crowd as, "those who don't have dates, those who have nothing better...