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...Cropleighs are blown sky-high in a steamboat explosion; of their four sons, Beverly and Duncan are blown earth-deep in a tunnel explosion (fratricide and suicide), Dickie loses a leg in the same disaster, and garrulous Jack is killed by a bullet aimed at still another Cropleigh. Daughter Julia causes much of the trouble by giving birth to a baby whose father might be her brother Duncan, her lover Pete Legrand, or even possibly her husband Joe Cree...
...dawn had to remain parked until sunset. He also tried to straighten out confusion in the Forum by moving the Rostra (named for the rostra, ships' prows, captured at Actium), where orators held forth, to one end of the Forum. He began the 110-yd.-long Basilica Julia, alongside the Temple of Castor and Pollux (see cut), to serve as an exchange, law court and meeting place. Caesar's successors carried on with ever-increasing grandiloquence and display, creating whole new Forums in one imperial gesture. Boasted Augustus, Caesar's grandnephew: "I found a Rome of brick...
They are Subha Bhuchongkul '58, mathematics; Julia Otis '58, history and literature; Gabriella Pintus '58, English; Mrs. Dinah Levine Rozen '58, physics; and Karen Emma Wilk '58, English...
...gone too far in giving in to the Hungarian rebels, in proclaiming Hungarian neutrality and denouncing the Warsaw Pact. He had to flee for his life. Being a Communist, and knowing that Communist vengeance extends to families, he gathered up ten other Hungarian political leaders and their families, including Julia Rajk, whose husband Laszlo Rajk had been executed as a Titoist in 1949. They all arrived at the back door of the Yugoslav embassy just in time. As Embassy Secretary Milovnov let them in,a Russian armored car screeched to a halt, and out popped a soldier who sprayed...
Spruce Ave., we suspected, was the "Main Street" for the community's 59,919 inhabitants. On it, or close by, slumbered some of Mount Auburn's most distinguished residents, including Phillips Brooks, President Eliot, Julia Ward Howe, Charles Sumner, Louis Agassiz, and Edwin Booth. Others, such as Amy Lowell, Francis Parkman, Josiah Royce, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, were further removed to be sure, but there seemed to be no class distinction in non-sectarian Mount Auburn, and most definitely, there was no "wrong side of the tracks." Spruce Ave., while invigorating, seemed exhausting, and we felt our temples throb...