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...Dmitry Shostakovich, 51, is one of the 20th century's most gifted composers, but that has not kept Soviet politicians from pounding him like a bass drum. In the '30s and '40s Communist officials let him have it fortissimo for writing music that failed to trace a melodic line straight to the heart of the average Russian. Composer Shostakovich has long since recanted his sins and been allowed once again to sing for his supper. The song he sang last week, his brand-new Eleventh Symphony, was supposed to help celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Russian...
What the excavators found was a looted grave, so despoiled (probably by the Saracens in 846) that much of it was a featureless hole. There was no trace of the bronze casket in which tradition said Constantine had placed St. Peter's relics. All that remained, buried at the rear of the grave niche, were a few bones. The Vatican has said only that they are human, that there is no skull among them, and that they are those of a powerfully built person of advanced age but undetermined sex. With this intriguing information −pending further Vatican disclosures...
...slyly camouflages the fact that there is as much truth as spoof in his pseudo-scientifically stated findings. Finally, he is as difficult to laugh off as he is easy to laugh with. Author Parkinson promises to make further researches into executive manners. One project: he would like to trace the significance of "the illegibility of signatures, the attempt being made to fix the point in a successful executive career at which the handwriting becomes meaningless even to the executive himself...
...that had "never been used by any Chief Executive for the purpose set forth" by Eisenhower-was promptly rebutted by the New York Times's astute Supreme Court Reporter Anthony Lewis, who retorted that not one but two statutes were involved, and that both "trace all the way back to 1792." Undaunted, Lawrence in his next column argued that the 14th Amendment, "allegedly forbidding segregation," was "ratified illegally by the pressure of military force." Thus, concluded Lawrence, "government by bayonet has superseded government by the laws of Congress in supposedly free America...
...late last night, no trace of either the thugs or the car had been found...