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...other rubbernecking Bostonians, Democrat Hynes got himself photographed with a nestful of Neo-Fascists, was front-paged by happy Communists and indignant Conservative dailies alike. Some newspaper reports alleged that Hynes had visited the Neo-Fascist headquarters, had seen a film glorifying Mussolini's last stand, asked a café orchestra to play the forbidden Blackshirt hymn Giovinezza, topped off his day by observing July 4 with a 2 a.m. fireworks display on the Appian Way-creating such indignation that a city council meeting debating the reports broke up in acrimonious confusion. Heading back to the U.S. with...
...neighborhood sheik. The Karams were invited, but decided not to go. As a man of the cloth, Simaan Dweihi was also present. As the various churchmen and family elders made their way toward the little parish church of Our Lady of Miziyara, their henchmen gathered in a nearby café, eying each other with the distrust common to the district...
Church Ablaze. Suddenly the solemn procession of six red-robed bishops and more than 100 bearded priests was interrupted by a burst of gunfire from the café. In a moment the entire village square was ablaze with gunfire. Inside the church a covey of his kinsmen surrounded Father Dweihi, and some of them took bullets aimed at him. When at last a detachment of troops arrived from Zghorta, ten Dweihis, two Franjiehs and two Moawads lay dead. Four other innocent villagers died as well, and the wounded totaled about...
...calm, sunny afternoon in Algiers the terrace cafés were filled with shirt-sleeved apéritif drinkers, and families lingered in the palm-shaded parks. At the Casino de la Corniche, perched on a cliff overlooking the blue Mediterranean, teenagers danced to the rhythms of Lucky Starways and his orchestra. In a nightmare of sudden sight and sound-a shattering blast, the music stopped in midflight, the thunder of a heavy explosion -the peaceful picture was erased. It was a time bomb under the orchestra platform. In a flash the tea danqe became a scene of death...
Actress Tallulah Banlchead switched to philosophy, found it so smooth that she fashioned a 120 proof pousse-café for readers of Esquire: On Elvis: "I hear that he's good to his mother and father, and I don't think for one moment that he's conscious of what he's doing." On sex: "We have it on the brain too much. That's no place for it." On the deity: "My own belief is actually very simple. I believe that if there isn't but one God, there...