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...Owe Russia $1,200, Hope...
...import. In the 1840s, the citizens of Argentina's port of Buenos Aires watched in fascination as the crews of British ships idled away dockside hours kicking a ball around. In Peru, where other British sailors spread the fever, the saying is that "the only good things we owe the British are soccer and Scotch." And of the two, soccer is by far the more intoxicating. It appeals to a Latin sense of rhythm, of masculine grace and strength...
Mussolini and Diem owe the slogan to its originator, the Royalist La Rochejaquelin, who shouted the same enjoinder-in French-to his Catholic followers during the Wars of the Vendee (1793), a vain counterrevolution against anticlerical republican revolutionaries...
...Owe Russia $1,200, Hope...
...cornerstone has been all but crushed. As a result of decisions by the state's Supreme Court, Nebraskans who bought anything on the installment plan during the past four years have a legal right to keep their purchases and quit making payments-no matter how much they still owe. According to some legal authorities, purchasers are even entitled to sue to recover payments already made...