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Victor Emmanuel and Elena sailed for Egypt, whose King Farouk had offered them asylum. Stepping off the Italian cruiser at Alexandria, the exiled king cried to the sailors lined up amidships: "Farewell. . . . You are the men I loved the most." In his reign, Italy had embarked on five wars, two of them undeclared; more than 1½ million Italian soldiers and sailors had died in them...
Once, ten years ago, the harsh outlines of reality had begun to focus in Nijinsky's blurred mind. He was allowed to leave his secluded asylum in Switzerland, lived privately for a time in his wife's native Hungary. He had begun to recognize friends. Then came war, and the sound of bombs sent him cowering back into his world of shadow. The Russians found him in Hungary, put him up in the best hotel in Vienna, gave him a box at the ballet. The Russians assured Romola that Nijinsky would be welcomed in Russia as a hero...
...four years, while the Italians overran his country, Ethiopia's Haile Selassie found refuge on a peaceful estate in Bath. "The asylum," he said later, "offered us ... in [our darkest] hour ... has been of inestimable value...
...double-walled ice-cube bowls ($4.98). Some of the bowls have close-fitting caps which, upon slight pressure, create a partial vacuum, form an airtight container. All of them can be squeezed to form a spout which disappears when the bowl is set down. A Massachusetts insane asylum found Tupperware an almost ideal replacement for its noisy, easily battered aluminum cups and plates; patients could damage Tupperware only by persistent chewing...
Death Came Early. One day, No. 23 left the kappa and returned to Japan. He could never again discover the entrance to their country, was finally confined by skeptical authorities. He regarded his stay in the asylum with resignation, remembering the words of Mag, the kappa philosopher: "The wisest way of life is to look with contempt at the customs of an age, but nonetheless to live so as not in the least to destroy them...