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Last week Madrid's large Monarchist daily A.B.C. was astir with feminine indignation over Spain's archaic laws on women. The indignation was set off by the account of a Madrid housewife who for years worked hard to support a drunkard husband and, though abused by him, could not leave him, having no money, no relatives, no place to go. In the end, the husband stabbed her to death. "This poor creature," cried an impassioned columnist in A.B.C., "paid with her life for the injustices of law made by man for men . . . Let her sacrifices bear the fruits...
Purges & Production. For the past month, Cairo's rumor markets were astir with talk that a disenchanted Naguib was about to quit. Instead, Naguib's government...
...Have to ..." It is midnight and all around the hills are astir. Here a sharp burst of small-arms fire, there the flashing life & death of an American shell, searching out the enemy who we know are gathering within 5,000 yards of this command post. One of the field telephones rings, an officer of the staff picks it up, listens a moment and says, "Oh, Christ, there's a column of refugees, three or four hundred of them, coming right down on B company." A major in the command tent says to the regimental commander...
That was a month ago. The Queen had come to christen the new aircraft carrier Ark Royal, and all Bebington was astir to greet her. Streets were hung with naval pennants, shopfronts blossomed in bunting. As bobbies took up stations along the main street to the shipyards, Bebingtonians by the thousands pressed close to cheer the royal Daimler as it sped past. Dustman Cooper was spending the day as usual, driving his garbage truck through the streets, and taking what satisfaction he could from the fact that his truck was a spanking brand-new one, red and shiny...
Last week Western Europe was astir. It was moving farther and faster toward the union which was its best chance for survival than anyone would have thought possible a few years, or even a few weeks, ago. Old notions of sovereignty were sloughed off, old jealousies pushed aside...