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Rider. Near Barcelona, a peasant hitched a ride on a truck carrying an empty coffin. As it was raining, he crawled inside the coffin. Soon, the truck took two more passengers aboard. As they drove on, the peasant raised the lid, ejaculated: "It's stopped raining." Over the side went the other riders in terror. One was killed, the second badly hurt...
Carmen Amaya is about 19: her family cannot quite remember, and their notes on the subject differ. She began dancing for tourists when she was four, in the family cave in the gypsy quarter of Granada. The footloose Amayas took her to dance at the Barcelona exhibition when she was about seven, let her appear in Singer Raquel Meller's show in Paris a year later...
Admiral Leahy drove toward the silent town, through war-stricken countries where life was at a low ebb. He had left the cruiser Tuscaloosa at Barcelona, had driven through the mountains to Le Perthus, where only 23 months ago masses of defeated Loyalists jammed the narrow roads trying to reach the border. When he arrived at Lyon a special railway car was waiting. The diplomatic Admiral, long-faced, forceful, tactful, had come a long way to enter the world's most perplexing diplomatic labyrinth. It was a France in which most Frenchmen believed that their fate depended...
Negrin, now a student at M. I. T., spent several months in Barcelona while that city was under siege, escaping shortly before it fell. During that period, he remarked, he became acquainted with a wide variety of organizations which constituted Spain's Popular Front...
...British have a weakness for lost causes like that of Quiberon. There have been others-Barcelona in 1705, Toulon in 1793, Norway in 1940. But the worst of them all, because the job looked so easy and the repercussions of failure were so drastic, was last week's fiasco at Dakar...