Word: compliments
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Last week the French police suddenly tossed El Campesino into jail. Almost at once, Spanish security police returned the compliment by rounding up 17 anti-Gaullist Frenchmen. Among them: Pierre Lagaillarde and his crony, Café Owner Joseph Ortiz, who has been condemned to death in absentia for his part in the barricades revolt, as well as a handful of ex-colonels involved in the generals' Putsch...
...strings of his guitar, he plucked the haunting, staccato music that only gypsies can make. "Se toca asi [That's the way]!" cried someone. "Your hands are not of silver, but of gold." He moved among the crowd, found a pretty French girl, and sang her a Spanish compliment: "You are beautiful. Your husband is a silly man unworthy of you, and we should meet tomorrow." The girl smiled in mystification, and De Plata moved away. At last, before dawn, the concert ended. "I have rarely played so well," said De Plata. "I have the guitar in my heart...
...fitfully feverish cast, but it never became ugly or strident. Tenor Thomas was less compelling, but he too turned in a good performance-far more vigorous than Bayreuth audiences can expect from more familiar, beef trust-styled Wagnerian tenors. At the curtain, Wieland Wagner paid his two stars a compliment that suggests just how important American talent has become at Bayreuth. "Thank you," said Wagner, "for a new Parsifal...
Nebraskans went for Nixon, but they are mighty proud of Kennedy's young man: Theodore C. Sorensen, 33, the sharp Nebraska lawyer who is the President's close adviser. Last week, at a dinner in McCook honoring the late Republican Senator George W. Norris, Sorensen returned the compliment with a stinging lecture. Subject: Nebraska as an "educationally depressed area...
...Joan assured the world, in the blase manner of Hollywood, that "George and I are not mad at each other," hinted that he might marry her when her divorce becomes final in January. Jessel's reaction to the matter: "At my time of life, the charge is a compliment...