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...suave, wavy-haired Archduke Otto von Habsburg passed a night at Meridian, Miss.'s Lamar Hotel. After he left next day the management got a frantic letter from his secretary. Count von Degenfeld: would they please forward pronto to Austin, Tex. a nightshirt-snowy broadcloth and with Habsburg crest on the pocket-which His Royal Highness had left behind...
...Bills and Gandhi's first defiance in India, Nehru was in at the birth. He was profoundly excited by that first great wave of nonviolence, came as near religion as he had since early childhood (not very near), and was no less profoundly baffled when, almost at the crest, Gandhi called off the show...
Resourceful, ruthless and self-assured, Goya rode the crest of this cloacal flood. A ram-headed man of enormous appetites, he ate himself to the verge of apoplexy, begot 20 legitimate children (only one survived the plague-ridden rigors of Spanish life), became the lover of the beautiful and powerful Duchess of Alba, a favorite of the harlot Queen, the most sought-after society portraitist of his time...
...rocky town of Toledo, Painter Theotokopoulos found himself on the rip-roaring crest of the Spanish Inquisition. Gaunt Dominican monks prowled the streets, hunting heretics. Middle-aged St. Theresa, businesslike in her hair shirt, wrote, declaimed, founded convents by the dozen. King Philip II's weedy, emaciated aristocrats, shunning the world with proud incompetence, vain of blood and sharp of feature, were furnishing Miguel de Cervantes with ideas for his best-seller Don Quixote...
Whatever the wave of the future might be, he was on the crest of the present. To some he was a monstrous symbol-he was State Socialism, or Governmental paternalism incarnate, a man with powers too great for any man to wield. To others he was a figure of awful benevolence: the far-off giant in Washington who had saved their farms or banks or railroads or mines; who had rehabilitated stores, factories, schools, shops and homes after earthquakes, floods and tornadoes, or after financial disasters just as catastrophic...