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Exploring this neglected part of the U.S. frontier with the help of diaries and a somewhat perfervid dramatic style, Paul Wellman, a novelist and historian of the West, has produced a lively account of a criminal empire which "exerted an influence of bale and woe for a full generation and held all of interior America in a web of terror...
...year most of the numbers had begun to flake off the 1963 plates by March. Nobody seemed to know exactly why, and there was much suspicion of skulduggery among the inmates of Walpole State Prison, where Massachusetts plates are made. Walpole's prison publication, The Mentor, recently warned: "Woe be to ye men who made registry plates last year and are desirous of parole this year...
...Bolivia, where city officials supposedly have the say on who does business where, the women openly buy and sell prime stalls like seats on the stock exchange. A good location brings as much as $600, and woe betide the male who tries to interfere. In Colombia, the mayor of Bogota once sent city officials to enforce a ruling ordering market women to don white aprons and keep their food off the ground. Market women launched a counterbarrage of rotten tomatoes, and that ended that. In Paraguay, fire hoses were used against the women but were no match for flying vegetables...
...created an archetype of Jack Kennedy in the public mind which might or might not be true, but which would induce people to vote for him, and so would tend to move him into the direction I had created . . . The night Kennedy was elected, I felt a sense of woe, as if I had made a terrible error, as if somehow I had betrayed the Left and myself. It was a spooky emotion . . . as if I were responsible and guilty for all which was bad, dangerous or potentially totalitarian within the Kennedy Administration...
...ESTABLISHMENT. A fresh band of tart and antic young Britons are sinking satirical switchblades into Richard Nixon, Conrad Hilton, the former Lord Home and other biggish names and isms. Roddy Maude-Roxby is maniacally funny, and fetching Carole Simpson sings songs of 20th century woe with almost Brechtian detachment...