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...harem. At first, convent-bred Aimée violently resisted a fate worse than death, but at last came to agree with the Arab maxim: "Woman succeeds where man fails, for woman knows when to yield." Aimée became the Sultan's favorite, and lived to a ripe age plotting bloodthirstily against the Sultan's enemies. Thanks to Aimée, her son, Mahmoud II ("The Reformer"), broke the power of the Janissaries and (says a Turkish poet) "opened the gate of the Orient to a new light." "We see [through Aimée]," concludes Author Blanch...
...nation's delight. Daughter of a railroad carpenter, Debbie got into movies in 1948 when a talent scout spotted her wearing a holey bathing suit in a Burbank (Calif.) beauty contest (her family couldn't afford new clothes for her). She not only attained a ripe age (for Hollywood) without marrying anybody, but, so far as anyone knew, had never even been in love before. By all signs, neither had Bachelor Fisher, who had also come up the hard way, getting off to a singing start by warbling in the Philadelphia streets about the merits of his father...
...made nine errors in three innings in his first game, feigned a leg injury to get off the field. The disgusted manager of the team, whose father was a produce dealer, waived Riss to him. He put Riss to work selling a carload of ripe bananas before they spoiled. Riss not only turned in a profit but in a few months was in his own produce business, with a truck and a debt of $1,060. When he made back the $1,060 in 25 days by hauling fruit from orchards and farms, the town's leading produce dealer...
...party line in Italy has been not to make but to avoid a revolution. "One of Togliatti's duties in the period right after the war was precisely to see to it that Communists did not attempt to come to power by force, even though the moment seemed ripe for just that. The partisans were still armed; there were entire regions in a state of terror; the government was weak, and the Reds held key posts in the government and police force. But, as Togliatti explained, the Allies would have crushed any such insurrection attempt. Whenever Togliatti talks about...
...hands to be honest. The contest was between the incumbent Democrats and the Republican People's Party, both of whom claim descent from the late great Kemal Ataturk. Ataturk, who modernized the nation and cured most of its ancient political and economic sickness, did not believe it was ripe for democracy in his time. His hand-picked successor, Ismet Inonu, ruled for twelve years, and was regarded by his enemies as a vengeful and haughty dictator. In 19461-eight years after Ataturk's death-the people voted for the first time, and returned Inonu's Republicans...