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...drivers in last week's contest between the Vasco da Gama and America teams were typical of the heterogeneous lot attracted to autobol. One was a cab driver obviously venting pent-up aggressions, while two others were doctors who drove as if they were bent on drumming up some business. Though no one has yet been killed in autobol, bruises and broken ribs are regularly dished out by such cunguceiros (bad guys) as Vasco da Gama's Walter Lacet, a director of TV soap operas...
There is only one class on the Lermontov, the first Soviet passenger ship to sail into New York harbor in 25 years. One member of that classless society was Composer Dmitry Shostakovich, 66, who after disembarking with his wife Irina, took in Aïda, one of his favorites, at the Metropolitan Opera...
ELIOT LIBRARY. Baroque chamber music for flute, viola da gamba, and harpsichord. Works of C.P.E. Bach, Rameau, and Marais. Free. Saturday...
Then the Americans entered Vietnam in force and dramatically altered the NLF calculations. American Marines flooded ashore at Da Nang and U.S. warplanes aimed northward, freezing the political situation temporarily. By endorsing Thieu and Ky, the generals then in power in Saigon, and pouring millions of dollars into the country, distorting the economy into a dependence on the American presence, the U.S. involvement forced a stalemate. In order to reduce the NLF's social base, the U.S. terror-bombed the countryside and herded the villagers into cities...
...years. Yet signs of wealth are extremely hard to detect in his lifestyle. When they come, extravagances are usually a $50 clock for Gabrielle, or the $1,000 phone bill he racks up each month when on tour, partly for business but partly also to hear his daughter say "Da da...