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...Visit tells of the return of an old and rich woman to the impoverished German town where she was born. The townsmen have known great poverty all their lives, and they hope that her lover of 50 years ago--Alfred Ill, played by Christopher Medearis--can persuade the old lady to give them some money. The old lady agrees to help--she will contribute the phenomenal sum of "one billion"--on one condition. It seems her former boyfriend had made her pregnant, and then denied before a court of law that he was responsible. As a result she was forced...
...president of SNCC, was addressing the meeting of 600 youths and 500 adults when the police surrounded the building. Worth Long, Dallas County coordinating secretary of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating, estimated in a telephone interview that in addition to the 50 state troopers, about 35 to 40 deputized townsmen and 15 local Selma police officers were outside the church...
...course, was a lie; but the leniency of its terms was surprising and perhaps indicative of important changes. While the jury had found it necessary to save face for the Sheriff, it had also given him a warning that he could not expect the total support of his townsmen in future acts of violence...
...agreed to build a mausoleum. On the great day of her arrival in 1958, some 10,000 people lined the streets, and dozens of white-frocked little girls named Izildinha scattered rose petals ahead of the pallbearers. There were speeches and fireworks; Constantino was hoisted on the shoulders of townsmen and officially named "honorary citizen of Monte Alto...
...visitors each year, but the authorities there know that customers are notoriously fickle; overnight a touch of bad weather, bad service in the hotels or an ugly scandal can send hundreds of tourists off in a huff to St. Moritz or Davos. Hence the reluctance of Zermatt's townsmen to talk about the curious wave of illness that began popping up three months ago. They stolidly ignored word from a Zurich physician that a patient just back from skiing in Zermatt was down with typhoid fever. They also shrugged off a report that an Italian immigrant working near Zermatt...