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...June 7, 1665, "Much against my Will, I did in Drury-lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and 'Lord have mercy upon us' writ there"-for it was the year of the Great Plague, when between a quarter and a third of London's population died. A year later, September 2, the Pepys' maid "Jane called us up, about 3 in the morning, to tell us of a great fire they saw in the City"-the first hours of the Great Fire of London, which destroyed half...
...Nixon control of parts of the Government that eluded him in his first term. His selections are expected to be as good at taking orders as at executing them. The group has the look of a tight, no-nonsense team, utterly devoted to the chief-a White House staff writ large...
...Barth-like writer who magically appears each day after boning up on his copy of The Arabian Nights. They also talk of mutual prob lems with such tenderness and under standing that the question of who is muse and who is bemused becomes a beautiful irrelevance. For Barth, a writ er who must keep himself going with self-conscious irony and ambiguity and tricks, Scheherazade is a literary dream girl. She told stories only out of the most urgent necessity: to save her lovely neck...
...largest operations since World War II. A force of 15,000 soldiers and marine commandos-backed by 600 armored cars bristling with artillery pieces and machine guns-last week invaded the Irish Republican Army's barricaded sanctuaries in Northern Ireland and reestablished the Queen's Writ throughout the province...
...October 22, his lawyer, David Nelson, appeared in Equity Session of Suffolk Superior Court, and obtained a restraining order postponing the execution of the extradition order to December 17. In the mean time, efforts are being made in Missouri to overturn his original conviction. Nelson has also filed a writ of habeas corpus in an attempt to kill the extradition proceedings...