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...liveried flunky discreetly roused dapper, white-haired Ramón Serrano Suñer from his siesta. "Two gentlemen to see you, sir, on a most urgent matter...
...Slacks. At an even greater rate, Argentines were pouring into Mar del Plata, the Atlantic City of the south. With 300,000 vacationists jamming its villas and 671 hotels, it had become for the season Argentina's third city. The renowned Hector y Su Jazz played nightly to capacity crowds at the world's largest casino. Beachgoers dined on steaks two inches thick, tangoed to a new tune called El Cafetin de Buenos Aires, then wound up their day with a fling at roulette. Though nowadays only waiters and casino attendants dressed after dark, much...
...sold his late wife's Bible. He had plenty of other Bibles left, said Shaw soothingly, and besides, the Bible was "not a book but a literature; and like all literature it contains not only wise doctrine and inspired poetry, drama and edifying fiction, but is mischievous and su- Sir Thomas himself was conducting an orchestra at 10. perstitious. . . . Until the Kingdom of Heaven is within you, you will search the Scriptures in vain...
Under the "bullheaded premier" Wang Anshih, this took the form of state capitalist enterprises which wrecked small business, taxes which deprived farmers of their land and a totalitarian form of military conscription. Su fought them all, with varying success. Among his achievements was the founding of the first public hospital in China and the engineering of an adequate water supply for the city of Hangchow...
Twice in his career, Su was deprived of all rank for "slandering" the Government (i.e., attacking politicians who ruled under the blind or benign eye of one emperor or another); once he was imprisoned, another time exiled to the island of Hainan off the South China coast. He was then an old man, and ill in health. He was set free in time to make his way home for the last time. Two weeks before he died at 64, he wrote his good friend the local abbot: "Life and death are mere accidents and not worth talking about...