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...scandalously false) that the marriage had never been consummated. Soon Lucrezia was sent higher up the political scale by marriage to the bastard son of the powerful King of Naples. This one lasted two years. Then Cesare had the fellow murdered, and husband No. 3 was found for Lucrezia : Alfonso d'Este, son of the even more powerful Duke of Ferrara...
...setting the monastery looks much as it did when it was first built by order of King Alfonso VII in 1141-a low structure of age-mellowed limestone with a cloistered courtyard. Inside are three fine statues-of Christ, Alfonso VII and Alfonso VIII-taken from the original monastery in Sacramenia. Moss and Edgemon hope that enough tourists will pay admissions (probably $1.85 a head) to return them their investment and a long-term profit. Just to make sure, they have also added a few nonmonastic touches: a wishing well in the courtyard, piped music broadcast from a loudspeaker concealed...
Deserve to Be Immortal. In his 72 years of life (he died in 1936), Miguel de Unamuno was forever in trouble. A fiery liberal, he was once exiled by Primo de Rivera, accused Alfonso XIII of being "unfit" to govern, attacked the republic and the rebels in turn, was finally dismissed by Franco. Though passionately religious, he could find no proof in logic for the immortality of the soul, felt that the only thing man could do was to "spend your life so that you deserve to be immortal." To some segments of official Spain, Unamuno was a heretic...
Within a day, the capital was out of meat and low on gasoline. As though by plan, President Jacobo Arbenz declared an emergency, summoned his Cabinet and seized the road. As trains began to move again, Alfonso Bauer Paiz, who proudly proclaims his hatred of "foreign monopolies," was named government interventor...
...ruled wisely over his subjects (without governing them) during some of the most searching times the thousand-year-old British monarchy had ever faced. Crowns and dynasties went down all round him. Among the victims were his own cousins "Willy" (Kaiser Wilhelm II), "Nicky" (Czar Nicholas II) and King Alfonso of Spain. But with George V as its dutiful symbol, the British monarchy came through the quarter-century stronger than ever...