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Still, an estimated 1,500,000 Italians will get a welcome break. Charges will be dropped against petty thieves, burglars, check bouncers, and scofflaws, who pile up parking tickets in anticipation of amnesty. Even tax evaders will escape jail sentences if they pay up. Because the amnesty only concerns crimes...
The prospect is not pleasing: the new subway tunnel represents a threat of permanent vibration, and while construction is underway, the Yard would be a monumental mess. MBTA engineers would probably use a cut-over technique of construction through the Yard; that is, they would dig down from the surface...
"Scurrilous & Silly." The point of the magazine's piece was that Michigan State, while running a big, U.S.-financed project to train Viet Nam's fledgling police forces from 1955 on, provided cover for five CIA agents. On that, everybody concurred-but on precious little besides. Among Ramparts...
The same economic factors that can make planes somewhat less "airworthy" than they might otherwise be, also stand to make them somewhat less "crashworthy." To dress up the cabin, the manufacturers have put in nylon and Dacron seat covers, soundproofing and rugs; the stuff may be pleasing to the passengers...
"There is, and should be," trumpeted Giuseppe Verdi, "only one kind of music pleasing to Italian ears-the music of guns! I would not write a note for all the gold in the world: I should feel immense remorse for using up music paper, which is so good for making...