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...permitted to destroy fakes or what they consider to be fakes, wherever they find them, all collections would be in jeopardy." A quipster proposed that Selig hang the damaged painting with the label: "Latest work of Morris Graves." But Collector Selig himself was relaxed, wrote Graves a letter: "Your anger was justifiable. I would prefer to leave payment or the choice of replacement of the damaged picture to you. Whatever you decide will be fine with...
...Been Slandered!" Watching the show at his embassy, the Spanish ambassador, Juan Pablo de Lojendio, 53, who is the Marquis of Vellisca and normally the picture of diplomatic decorum, seethed with anger, jumped up and went to the studio. Bursting in, he bellowed: "I demand the microphone!" All Cuba, for which Castro tirades are the standard late late show, watched bug-eyed. Castro, taken aback at first, took charge of the show to shout: "A breach of conduct! You are not in Spain but in the Republic of Cuba." The picture went off the air, but the sound channel carried...
...sight of Castro's anger, his labor-union bosses called out the mob. Descending next day on the Spanish embassy, deserted in the nick of time by Ambassador Lojendio. the crowd ran up the Cuban and Spanish Loyalist flags on the embassy pole, threw tomatoes, shouted and waved banners reading DOWN WITH FRANCO! OUT WITH LOJENDIO! TO SPAIN OR TO PRISON ! Another mob trailed Lojendio to the airport next morning, yelling as he boarded a plane for home: "Get out, you jackass...
Favorite Target. The anger thus generated turned naturally on Castro's favorite target, the U.S. On his TV marathon, Castro had charged that U.S. business was responsible for Cuba's history of "stealing, killing, granting concession, subjugating national interests." He accused the U.S. of sending light planes to make incendiary raids on Cuban sugar fields, and charged that "a certain chancellery" was plotting his assassination. "That is the Alpha Plan of the counterrevolutionaries" he said sneeringly...
...Rome, the pilgrims will visit the Circus Maximus, where early Christians were fed to hungry lions. Those who hunger for revenge can get it outside the arena at a refreshment stand that sells lionburgers; leftover anger can be worked off at the David and Goliath Slingshot Galleries. But, say the promoters, "above all else, Bible Storyland will be a happy place." One of the gayer rides will take paid customers to heaven -in a gold litter drawn by a team of cherubs. From the air, the "Shrine of Faith Plaza," Ur and the caravan route will be laid...