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...away," he boasts. "We struck at the heart of the most aristocratic quarter." Buildings standing two and three stories high, with 50-ft. street fronts, "French doors" and traces of balconies, were found still upright, protected by the dry volcanic ash that enveloped them before the final massive explosion. Upward of 3,500 ceramic pots and vases have been found, but no human or animal remains and no valuables. Marinates explains that the people of the town, warned of the impending disaster by earth tremors and ominous outpourings of ash and gases must have fled in time and taken their...
...this month is Roberts' 47th book, an autobiography entitled The Call, which has already sold 30,000 copies. Disarmingly folksy, the book takes Oral upward from his grim days as a preacher's son ("I felt quite sure that Jesus lived with us because Mamma and Papa talked to him so much"), on a Pilgrim's Progress as it might have been rewritten by Horatio Alger. All the hagiographic basics are there: his mother's vow to give her child to God in return for the healing of a neighbor's child; his bloody bout...
...which introduced Geraldine as an airline stewardess in a sketch with Jonathan Winters' gray-haired Maude Frickert. The network offered him his own show the next year, and he was off and away. When you're hot, you really are hot. His net income is well upward of $1,000,000 a year. This comes mainly from earnings from his show and royalties from his four comedy LPs (one of them a gold disk), which are put out by a company of which he is an owner. He no longer plays nightclubs...
...Ages. The gypsies used to mark a charcoal sign on the first available white wall of a village on the road. A triangle, the angle downward, stood for a hand with the index finger toward the ground and meant, "Danger, be careful, no hospitality"; the triangle with the angle upward, stood for a hand with the index finger aiming toward the sky and meant, "Go ahead, good place on this road"; a circle meant, "Nice place for the circle of the campfire, a place to rest...
...glaring weakness nonetheless remains in the report. It lacks a description of how a society dedicated to upward and onward growth can change its ways. Dennis Meadows, thoroughly aware of the problem, is trying to raise funds for a computer study of the possibilities. To date, he has had little success. Why? Mainly because Americans still tend to believe that continual growth is the solution to all problems...