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...Havana's cavernous Sports Palace, 600 shouting, sweat-soaked partisans last week acclaimed Carlos Hevia, 52, as the official Auténtico Party's presidential candidate in the June elections. Next week five lesser parties in the pro-government coalition are scheduled to add their endorsement of President Carlos Prío's hand-picked choice for his successor...
...heart of Europe's sickness as the new year opened, underlying its dollar deficiencies and its chronic sweat and tears, was a shortage of one grubby product...
...whom he had abandoned the throne, the King held the fort in London, and endured like other Londoners. Like theirs, his home was bombed. His children, like theirs, were sent to the country; his relatives, like theirs, died in the line of duty. He shared with his people the sweat and tears of war. A memorable wartime newsreel depicted on one side of the Channel a ranting, raving Hitler, surrounded by tanks and planes, and on the other side, all alone, the quiet figure of the steadfast King...
...heavy-jowled, bloated men with pot bellies. But Rene Peroy, Harvard's fencing coach, cultivates an expert taste for wine along with a tip-top physical condition. Past sixty-five, he can fence with one student after another, leaving them limp with exhaustion, while he hardly breaks into a sweat...
swampy ground....They used to get off their horses, without having said a word, and helplessly submerge themselves in each other's arms, while the sweat ran down their backs under their shirts...They stood swaying together with their booted feet deep in the mulch, holding each other, hot and mystified in this green gloom....After a while...they would mount the horses again. (page...