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Apparently the goings-on in Selma had taken their toll on Clark too. At week's end he was taken to Vaughan Memorial Hospital, suffering, his doctors said, from chest pains and exhaustion. A band of some 200 teen-age Negro demonstrators, most of whom had been prodded along the forced-march route by Clark and his men, gathered outside the hospital carrying signs that bore the message "Jim Clark, get well in mind and body." Said one of the demonstrators later: "It just wasn't the same without Clark fussing and fuming. We honestly miss him." That...
...toll on the extension from Harvard to downtown Boston is twenty cents...
Panama's nationalists have long been rabidly convinced that the U.S. reaps enormous profits from the old canal. The facts: toll rates have not been raised since 1914; the canal grossed $68 million last year, barely enough to cover expenses; in 50 years, the U.S. has not yet amortized the $380 million original cost. Nevertheless, the nationalists view the present canal as a Panamanian "natural resource," and that attitude guides even such able men as President Marco Robles and Foreign Minister Fernando Eleta. Their position, at least as an opening gambit: they will agree to a new canal only...
...will take a lot of rallying. The once mighty organ, some of whose parts date back to 1475, has suffered severe internal injuries over the centuries. In 1836 a fire swept the cathedral and silenced the organ for a decade. Two world wars took an even heavier toll. The cathedral's stainedglass windows, removed to protect them from bombing raids, were replaced by sheets of oilcloth, which soon developed gaping holes, admitting not only rain and wind but also squadrons of pigeons that fancied the organ pipes as a roost. For years afterwards, repairmen were extracting pigeon skeletons from...
...strength of the Rousseau volume is the other way around: the pictures are good but are dominated by Dora Vallier's text, which is a critical biography of satisfying dexterity and power. In the 50 years since his death, the life story of this Paris toll collector who quit his work to become a painter at the age of 40 has become fogged with hearsay and growing legend. Author Vallier penetrates to the basic facts of his life and establishes a firm chronology of his work. She is thus able to be explicit and detailed about the development, both...