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...pistols, joined the first, and they slammed shut the double glass doors of the library. Trapped within were 15 people - ten employees of the Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, including seven women, and four prisoners who were not involved in the breakout attempt. Thus began, on July 24, the longest seizure of hostages in the agitated history of U.S. prisons...
...Drunkard is supposedly 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 continuing its run 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 used to lead...
...Premier from 1955 to 1963, Caramanlis presided over the longest period of economic and political stability in Greece's turbulent postwar history. Campaigning for reelection, he once boasted that he had "transformed Greece from an Oriental village to a European country." He laid the foundations for Greece's recovery from World War II -and the bloody civil war against Communist insurgents that followed-by stabilizing the drachma, bringing Greece into the Common Market as an associate member, and setting the country on a course toward industrialization. One of his proudest accomplishments was his participation in the 1960 treaty...
John B. Butler, director of Personnel, and William N. Mullins, manager of employee relations, said after the printers ended Harvard's longest strike last week that bitterness between GAIU and BTU members could make this week a difficult one at the Printing Office...
...Drunkard, after long and inexplicable delays, is finally opening up this week at the Washington St. Opera House in Somerville. This is supposed to be the longest running show in America, and it's an invective about Demon Rum. Sounds like a nineteenth century "Reefer Madness." This is opening up Thursday night. Call 628-1266 for more information...