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...Drunkard is supposed to be the longest running show in the history of the universe, beating out the Aurora Borealis by three and a half days. Astronomers may quibble with this fact, but the play, written in 1843, is opening up Thursday night at Somerville's Washington St. Opera House in any event. It's all about a man who lives somewhere to the north of Cambridge going into Boston and getting drunk, thus causing all sorts of problems for himself. There's a moral here somewhere, but it's probably gotten lost over the past 131 years. P.T. Barnum...
...earplugs (as a protection against noise) that might make it difficult for them to hear the alarms. The critics' most telling complaint is that visiting OSHA inspectors by law cannot advise businessmen how to clear up unsafe conditions; they can only mete out fines. George Peters, president of Aurora Metal Co., a foundry in Montgomery, Ill., fumes: "If you call OSHA in for advice, they will issue you a citation...
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...introduction of systematic terror squarely on Lenin. He notes that Lenin was the first Soviet leader to use the designation "concentration camps," thus "launching one of the most important terms of the 20th century." Indeed, he adds, "The Archipelago was born with the first gun salvos of Aurora" -the battle cruiser that signaled Lenin's seizure of power in October 1918. The "alma mater," as Solzhenitsyn calls it, of all subsequent forced-labor camps was established under Lenin in 1923 on the Solovetsky Islands in the Arctic. Later, Stalin made slave labor a dominant factor in the Soviet economy...
JOHN L. KNUTSSON Aurora, Colo...