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...might have been the heroine of that movie. She lived a secluded life in Piazza Armerina, a town of 28,000 set in the bleak, sun-baked hills of central Sicily. At home, Maria was so strictly supervised that she could not even go to church alone. But each weekday, Maria traveled 40 miles to and from the University of Catania, where she was working toward a teaching degree. Last spring Maria entered a geography course taught by handsome Professor Francesco Speranza...
...teams have already played each other all the times the schedule calls for. Now the decision is in the hands of the Angels-or so thought the midweek crowd of 25,033 that turned out to watch Los Angeles play the New York Yankees last week. The same weekday night, up at Minnesota, the Twins packed them in for a game with the league-leading Orioles, and so did the White Sox when they entertained the Detroit Tigers...
...part of a sensational expose on British racketeering, London's tabloid Sunday Mirror last month thundered on its front page that Scotland Yard was investigating a homosexual relationship between a peer of the realm and a notorious London gangster. The Sunday Mirror and its weekday sister, the Daily Mirror, which repeated the story, named no names, describing the peer only as "a household word." But upon returning from a vacation, Lord Boothby, 64, onetime parliamentary private secretary to Winston Churchill, looked into the Mirrors and in effect screamed: That's me they're talking about...
...with 7,000 more phone calls than it could handle. They came from listeners who wanted to join a discussion program on civil rights questions. In Columbus, sheriff's deputies practiced mob control by hurling featherweight plastic "bricks" at one another. In Chicago, housewives suddenly cut out their weekday visits to Lincoln Park Zoo and instead began going in groups to Lake Michigan's beaches because they feared attacks by marauding Negroes...
...needs 4800 signatures from Boston, but said he sought at least 10,000 to be sure he gets on the ballot. The canvassing for signatures will continue through July 14. Every weekday cars will leave from 44 Brattle St. at 5:30 p.m. and on weekends at 10 a.m. to transport volunteers...