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...While sin is rampant in Hurley, and the town's three churches are fighting a losing battle to save its wild and woolly soul, the community is not totally without law and order. An estimated $22,400 enters municipal coffers from saloon licenses, and Mayor Sam Giovanni is torn between righteousness and revenue. Admitting that some saloons should not be granted licenses, he says: "I'm not protecting them; I would like to see them run just as clean as in any other city. I think something should be done about it." Hurley has heard the phrase before...
From East Berlin's Stalinallee to a Paris suburb's Rue Staline,* street signs and statues last week were torn down as Khrushchev's destalinization drive continued. The campaign proceeded without much opposition. An exception was Italy, where Stalin's second death was the center of debate and confusion within the largest Communist party in the West...
Monro made the point about the un-unpredictability of the commuter population in order to emphasize the difficulties in the eventual demolition of Dudley House will bring. When Dudley is torn down to make room for the new Holyoke Center, the College will be faced with few alternatives, Monro said: distributing commuters among the Houses, or creating a new center for them...
Portugal in election week was like a nation under siege-and, in a sense, it was. The air force was alerted. Naval patrol boats growled offshore, and ground troops earmarked for the revolt-torn African colony of Angola were diverted to home duty instead. From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic-whipped northwestern frontier, police mounted a vast network of roadblocks known as "Operation Stop," ostensibly to crack down on auto thieves. Actual reason for the emergency: Strongman António de Oliveira Salazar's obsessive fear that maverick Henrique Galvâo, who stole the Santa Maria and world...
...flight. Overcome by grief, Orpheus sought her and persuaded Hades to release her from the underworld. Orpheus started back to earth with her, but violated the condition that he should not look at her until he left the underworld--and so he lost her. Back on earth, Orpheus was torn apart by women jealous of his love for Eurydice...