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...months, students at Guadalupe had petitioned and protested against dormitories so crowded that 120 slept in a single room, against wretched food, a shortage of water. They had demanded dismissal of the school's director as incompetent and dishonest. Finally brusque Education Minister Cristóbal de Lozada Puga. an anti-Aprista, visited Guadalupe, promised to investigate conditions, warned the students against political agitation. The students went on strike...
...totally different from that of Germany; there will be no "military government" as such. But MacArthur presumably will have under him a chief military superviser, a political adviser, regional chiefs, and a swarm of other functionaries. Already lined up were such able men as Brigadier General William E. Crist, who has been military governor of Okinawa, and Colonel Sidney F. Mashbir, who has made a career of knowing the Japanese in peace...
...candidate for Spain's naval academy was a 17-year-old hereditary Admiral of the Indies-Cristóbal Colón, descendant of the original...
...peak century and a half, had been almost as good at painting as it was at exploring. Connoisseurs found these primitives strongly influenced by the Flemish school founded about 1410 by famed Painter Hubert van Eyck. Some of the early Portuguese masters, like Nuno Gonçalves and Cristóvão de Figueiredo, were subtle portraitists who could have swapped paint brushes & pallettes with all but the best of the Flemish painters. But the Portuguese types por trayed, the thinner paint on the canvases, the gentler, sun-warmed treatment of crucifixions, decapitations and flayings, gave Portugal...
Latest answer to these riddles was offered this week in a shrewd and seductive biography by erudite, witty, sparrowish Salvador de Madariaga, Spain's famed philosopher-journalist-diplomat. He declares that Cristóbal Colón was a Genoa-born, converted Spanish Jew; that his family fled Catalonia during the Jewish pogroms around...