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...baroque atmospherics, the Gallo assassination was more than merely an episode of gangster nostalgia. As Gallo lay in his open casket, his face a mask of mortuary prettification, his sister Carmella promised: "The streets are going to run red with blood, Joey." Within the space of six days, a total of five other bodies turned up, and the word was around that three more executions had been approved by the family of New York Mafia Overlord Carlo Gambino...
...PEOPLE in Sanders Theater voted to strike against the war and the PALC continued its occupation of Massachusetts Hall. A Funny Thing Happened on The Way to The Forum previewed at Leverett House Thursday night. This musical, though, has no redeeming social value; the mask it puts on is tunefully announced in the opening song: "Weighty affairs will just have to wait... Tragedy tomorrow, Comedy tonight!" Imperialism enters into the story just once: when the comically vainglorious captain, Miles Glorious, calls for the funeral of his apparently dead bride, he is asked, "But sir, do you have time...
...then secretly whisked to the museum. Fearing hijackers, the English authorities took the extraordinary step of closing the M4 superhighway that links Heathrow to London until the unmarked vans had gone through. Such measures were compelled by the probable value of King Tut's treasure: his gold funeral mask alone, some English experts speculate, is worth over $50 million...
...himself and his grandmother by begging in the streets of a small village south of Danang. One day he found something to play with-a white phosphorous grenade. It exploded, killing his two brothers and blinding his grandmother. Nor was Lang spared. The phosphorus seared his face, creating a mask of horror that no Hollywood makeup man could fashion. It also burned away his eye sockets and eyelids, leaving him with large frightened eyes that he cannot close...
Higgins's biggest competitor is Jacques Plante, the former Montreal goalie who invented the mask. In a game with the New York Rangers a Vic Hadfield slapshot caught Plante in the forehead and knocked him unconscious. When he returned to the ice to finish the game, he was wearing a mask, much to the disgust of coach "Toe" Blake and the rest of the Montreal players...