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...support of the 24 neo-Fascist Deputies to form his government. As the neo-Fascists assembled, a gang of Red-led picketers charged into the Piazza de Ferrari. Genoa's celere (riot police) were waiting for them. They circled around the rioters in jeeps like Indians around a wagon train, clipping heads with their stout billies and gradually narrowing the crowd down to a hard core. Special riot trucks doused the demonstrators with automatic hoses...
Subtle Punch. The wagon missed no side roads. In Hubert Humphrey's Minnesota, Kennedy men were working for an endorsement from Governor Orville Freeman and from Humphrey himself. Only a short time after erstwhile Candidate Humphrey told a group of delegates that "in fact, as I have listened to Kennedy speak, I don't see how I even had a chance," a Kennedy newsletter turned up in Minnesota with a picture of Hubert and Jack, captioned with the same quotation...
...hospital: her bed was ready. She proceeded to give the music lesson, sped back to the base, which she had to cover from end to end in the rain before she could locate the children. She took them home, fed and dressed them, packed, loaded them in the station wagon and drove the 30 miles to Manhattan where she was met by her husband and her suburban-New Jersey sister-in-law, who took command of the children. Then, having made sure that she could take the time, Beth checked into the hospital...
Died. Ernest Leonard Blumenschein, 86, magazine illustrator turned portraitist and Southwest landscape painter, who in 1898-when his wagon broke down while he was on his way to Mexico on a sketching trip-stayed on in Taos, N.M., founded an artists' colony that attracted Max Weber, John Marin. D. H. Lawrence, Willa Gather and Mabel Dodge Luhan; of bronchial pneumonia; in Albuquerque...
Tomato Sauce. Like 37-year-old Azzam himself-who was born in Cairo, lives in Geneva, drives a Chevrolet station wagon and speaks five languages-the song is a hybrid, Eurafrican polyglot. Written in French, Italian and Arabic, its lyrics may have been found in a Babel...