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...Cuban freighter Imias has been swinging idly at anchor between two locks in the Panama Canal since Oct. 3. Throughout that tune a U.S. Zone policeman hi a tiny launch has circled the ship with unceasing vigilance. The bizarre scene is part of an international legal tangle that involves money, politics, diplomacy, a violent coup, and howls from all sides directed at the U.S. and the federal judge who is responsible for the launch's vigil...
Extraordinary Session. Meanwhile a curious vigil was being mounted in Albert's anteroom. In the Senate, Barry Goldwater and Minority Leader Hugh Scott had got wind of the extraordinary session, and came over to sit outside Albert's office as a visible gesture of moral support for Agnew. They had to leave before the Vice President came out, but Agnew later phoned his thanks to Scott. "It was generous of you and Barry," he said. "These are the kinds of things that don't go unnoticed...
...turn up in current fiction: frustrated cops, tiresome racists, lower-middle-class wives with horizons defined by mortgage payments and broken washing machines. Breslin knows this turf, but he seems to have taken his title too literally. Under his ministrations, an instructive tour is slowly transformed into an endless vigil...
During the novel's 24 hours, citizens line up obediently to vote for the congressional candidate who, as chairman of the local draft board, channeled Brown's surrogate son into the swamps of Southeast Asia. Ubiquitous television sets keep vigil over three astronauts lost on a return flight from the moon. Murder in his mind, anguish in his heart, Brown must pace through his daily routine while mutely suffering Lear's rage at the fly that outlives Cordelia...
...August 1970, AIM and other groups began a prayer vigil at Mt. Rushmore in the Black Hills to protest the Federal government's purchase of 150,000 acres during World War II for a gunnery range. The militant groups claimed that the U.S. promised to return the acreage after...