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Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci, in whose district the first occurred, reminded the Council of the warning he delivered last week. Vellucci had said that the old plant was dangerous and unsightly, and should be torn down immediately...
...frightened of his own evil as of the false pretender who is coming through the winter forests to kill him. At last he dies, and in dying Boris Godunov demands an all-but-impossible mystic triumph of the bassos who sing his tragic role: his final prayer must be torn from a soul already lost, from lips already dead. Yet in the last few years, no role in all grand opera has grown so rich in men who sing it superbly...
...much milder and less bloody than most Arab revolts. In the past 15 years, the Middle East has been continually shaken like a kaleidoscope, constantly falling into new patterns. There have been two sizable wars and fully two dozen armed uprisings and rebellions. Premiers and princes have been torn limb from limb by street mobs; thousands of politicians and army officers have been killed by hanging, beheading, firing squads and assassins; and swarms of students, workers and tribesmen have been mowed down by machine guns and bombs...
Still, it was more honorable than eating his way out. While he was supposed to be training. Sonny was clumping around Miami Beach nightspots. Estimates on his weight ranged all the way up to 245 lbs., or 30 lbs. over his fighting weight. With Liston facing surgery for a torn meniscus, or cartilage, and out of action for at least six months, the title fight was postponed indefinitely. But only $75,000 worth of tickets had been sold anyway, and nobody seemed to care much...
...around; she shot-puts her entire family. Her daughter (Jill Kraft) lands on a psychoanalyst's couch: Should she marry a button-down stuffed shirt or donate free love to a beardless beatnik? Mama's husband (Howard Da Silva) lands on a putting green, a golf widower torn between selling his house and business and retiring to Florida, or buying out his rival and increasing his headaches. Informed that she is too meddlesomely possessive, Mama joins daughter on the couch in her own folksy way: "I like a harder mattress." The kindly psychoanalyst offers her some open-sesame...