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...Duke's wife--guess who she turns out to be--falls in love with him, and vice-versa. The duke walks in on them in her bedroom, pulls a gun, and gets killed as Cooper brains him with a chair, Cooper gets life in a prison on a bleak moor...
Years later she wondered why "the mother who taught me what I know of tenderness and love and compassion taught me also the bleak rituals of keeping Negroes in their place." To think out and try to solve that problem, she has written Killers of the Dream, a red-hot Freudianized tract against racial segregation, which is certain to anger even more Southerners than her Strange Fruit...
...visitor all is not so bleak. Medieval Moorish mosques, alhambras, elegant cathedrals enriched with rare Grocos and Velasquezes lured some tourists. Audalusian gypsies, bright Catalunian flesta scenes, and the gay, mantilla-draped senoritas attracted others...
...Chairman David Lilienthal of "incredible mismanagement." In fact, the ten Democrats on the committee spent 45,000 words praising AEC for striking "a satisfactory balance between 'security by achievement' and 'security by concealment.' The project," added the majority, "has moved a long way from the bleak days of 1947 when our weapon stockpile position bordered upon complete inadequacy...
...incessant border squabbles along the bleak mountainous boundary between independent, isolated Yemen and the British Protectorate of Aden, on the southern tip of Arabia, are, as one British diplomat put it, part of the "burden of empire." Last spring, Aden's British Governor Sir Reginald Champion added another straw to his imperial burden. An Adenese chieftain, the Sharif of Beiham, had asked that a frontier customs post be set up to tap the rich stream of smuggled coffee, skins and qat (an Arabian drug) which kept flowing into his territory over an ancient traders' trail from Yemen. Governor...