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Yesterday's arrests came in two round-ups. In the first, at 2:10 p.m., nine men and a young girl who police said was a juvenile were packed into a paddy wagon in front of Holyoke Center and taken to the Central Square station. The ten had been selling the paper to passers-by along Massachusetts Avenue for less than 90 minutes...
...plays the mandolin and could hardly care less that Tonio fritters away his time writing bad poems and getting bad marks at school. Tonio appreciates this permissiveness but disapproves of it; his father's strictness seems more dignified: "After all, we are not gypsies living in a green wagon...
...incident that sent the church into opposition occurred in the steelmaking town of Volta Redonda, after four university students had borrowed Bishop Waldir Calheiros' station wagon to distribute antigovernment pamphlets. A few hours later, eight tommy-gun-toting soldiers broke into Dom Waldir's home, searched his belongings and threatened to arrest him as a subversive. When a local radio station canceled a Catholic program and read an army-composed editorial against the bishop instead, Dom Waldir drew up and had printed a new list of Brazil's "seven capital sins," which included low salaries, unemployment, hunger...
KQED is also subsidized in effect by its 130-member staff, many of whom could earn far more in commercial broadcasting. Top man is General Manager James Day, who dates back to the 1953 beginnings, when KQED was headquartered in the back seat of a station wagon. Today, the channel's offices are three splintering wooden warehouses near Skid Row. The studios are not even soundproof (fire engines offer contrapuntal competition...
...Castle near Koblenz, Germany. The scene, which required three days of near round-the-clock filming, shows an angry mob of villagers storming the castle, battering down the doors, and chasing a mad scientist and seven assorted monsters who hurriedly gather their gear and escape in a Volkswagen station wagon. The only dialogue is an announcer's voiceover: "If you've created a rather large family and you have an awful lot to carry, chances are a normal station wagon won't be large enough. Maybe you ought to consider something not quite so normal-like...