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While most San Franciscans remained calm and all 37 actual fires were extinguished, the uneasiness in the streets became obvious. Before dawn on Thursday, Alioto decided to shift ground and grant the strikers their full pay increase-with a compromise gesture delaying its enactment until Oct. 15. He did not inform the board of supervisors of his action until later that morning, Alioto told a news conference, because "I didn't want to disturb their beauty sleep," and he quietly hummed Mr. Sandman to the gathering .of reporters...
...Dawn has hardly broken over the unhappy Hartman household when the phone rings. It is the police, who have arrested Mary's Grandpa Larkin as "the Fernwood Flasher." A shocked Mary says, "I can't talk now; I'm on the phone." Meanwhile, Tom is at work being regaled by Charlie with the song that his Loretta wrote about mass murder -from the murderer's point of view. "That's not a subject for singing," says Tom. "Course it is," replies Charlie. "Country and western is all about real things like murder, amputations, faucets dripping...
...example, horehound, an age-old relief for coughs and sore throats, still sells briskly. Sage and mint teas, to name only two, are widely used to treat colds; and aspirin is made from salicylic acid, the essential chemical in willow bark, known as a palliative since the dawn of time. Safflower has long been grown for what is now known as "polyunsaturated" oil. Foxglove yields digitalis. Ephedrine, the base of many nasal sprays, is extracted from a desert shrub. Indians in New Mexico still use their traditional backache cure: a plaster of pitch and verbena...
...tension finally ended abruptly -and joyfully-at week's end as FBI agents and New York City Police staged a pre-dawn raid on an apartment building in Brooklyn. The lanky young Bronfman, newly graduated from Williams College and about to set out on his first full-time job, was found. He was weary and hungry but well. Two of his abductors were arrested, one at the scene, and police sought others. The FBI recovered the ransom, which had been arbitrarily reduced to $2.3 million by the conspirators. It had been delivered by Edgar Bronfman some 24 hours earlier...
Cavafy is a laureate of loss: loss of youth, loss of love, loss of existence. Some poets seem to be peering at the dawn of the world; Cavafy stares at its doom, a weary Olympian contemplating the "toys of fate." With age, the poet might have become a complete Cassandra of declivity. But he never relinquished his belief in the power of the artist to transform the sordid into the contemplative serenity of beauty...