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...list of holdouts grew smaller and smaller. Cuba, with no ready cash, dispatched its team on a boat loaded with sugar and tobacco; at each port of call, the cargo would be auctioned off to help defray expenses. Even Germany managed to outwit its future Fuhrer and sent 125 of its best young athletes...
...automatic machine-gun fire and rocket-propelled grenades and fled for the center of the town, seeking cover and supplies in the courtyards and homes of the villagers. As clay-tile roofs splintered and shattered in a sudden rain of machine-gun fire, the fighter planes unloaded their cargo of 250-lb. bombs, sending bottles and statuettes of saints flying from shelves and demolishing many adobe homes. Fleeing civilians were gunned down in the indiscriminate fire from the jets and helicopters circling overhead. Said a stunned villager: "What can we do? The bullets come from one side. They come from...
...needs to be fairly naive these days to believe that artists can literally function as shamans or magicians. Certainly Motherwell does not think so. But he fervently believes in the efficacy of signs, the ability of quite simple configurations to carry and release powerful associative cargo. The blue triangle of paint above the ocher and earth-red bars of Summertime in Italy, No. 28, 1962, offers all the sense of being in a landscape: light and wind stream from the blue, heat radiates from the brown. Motherwell's Elegies to the Spanish Republic, a lengthy series that lasted some...
...portico Mr. Roosevelt kept his seat in the car, waited a few minutes for President Hoover to join him for the ride up Capitol Hill. A lift of silk hats, a quick handshake, a few formal words and their greeting was over. With the country's most precious cargo behind, Richard Jervis, silvery-haired chief of the White House Secret Service, slipped into the front seat of the car, kept its door cracked and one hand on his pocketed pistol...
...contrast, the destruction of KAL 007 has become an international incident of near crisis proportions--complete with a Soviet veto in the UN Security Council, and significant repercussions in East-West relations, ranging from Congressional debates on defense issues to the refusal of Boston longshoremen to unload cargo from Soviet vessels--and came as a major shock to the Korean nation. The Korean government, the principal aggrieved party, has had its hands virtually tied...