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...surprised no one to find crusading Paul Douglas leading the attack on the Dixiecrats' filibuster over civil rights. But his choices have often been harder than that, as when John Bricker slyly added an anti-segregation amendment to the housing bill. Torn between two causes he believes in, Douglas characteristically chose the immediate issue of housing and blasted the amendment for what it was: an attempt to kill the bill by rousing the Southerners against...
...police headquarters, the jefe de policía was torn between awe of the duke and admiration for the popular torero. Said the jefe: "After all, there is one solution-marriage...
...science and foreign editor for the publishing house of Ullstein in Berlin. It was the era when "wheat was burned, fruit artificially spoiled and pigs . . . drowned ... to keep prices up and enable fat capitalists to chant to the sound of harps, while Europe trembled under the torn boots of hunger-marchers . . ." Just like all the other authors of this volume, Koestler decided "that in the face of revolting injustice the only honorable attitude is to revolt, and to leave introspection for better times ... I was one of those half-virgins of the Revolution who could be had . . . body and soul...
...lights, he had sought to guide his nation into the mainstream of modern civilization. He had broken the warlords, checked an early international Communist conspiracy, survived Japanese aggression-only to go down before a later, greater Communist conspiracy and the corruption which grew up in his own war-torn regime. No national leader had fought armed Communism longer or more tenaciously...
...tombs were untouched until the Napoleonic invasion of 1808, when French troops drove out the nuns and turned the cloister into a barracks. Later, when Wellington's troops in turn drove out the French, the nuns returned to their desecrated convent to find a ghastly spectacle: tombs torn open, their occupants (whose bodies the nuns regarded as sacred) sitting up or falling out haphazardly, valuables gone. The shocked nuns hastily replaced the bodies as best they could, and without outside help replaced the heavy lids of the sarcophagi. For another century the royal dead of Las Huelgas remained, unseen...