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...been trysting with the Prince on the royal family's private train. That was the last straw. Her mother, the Honorable Mrs. Shand-Kydd, fired off a letter to the Times. "Is it necessary or fair to harass my daughter daily, from dawn until well after dusk?" she asked. Then the palace took the almost unprecedented step of demanding a retraction of the "love train" story. It did not get one, but chastened editors informally agreed among themselves to ease up on Lady...
...bearded, middle-aged man, a visitor to San Salvador, was on his way back to his lodgings when he realized it was 7 p.m., the hour of the strict, dusk-to-dawn curfew. Caught out of doors, he was liable to be shot on sight as a guerrilla. Frantically he began knocking at the houses on Calle Poniente, pleading for shelter. No doors were opened. Instead, a frightened resident telephoned the police to report a suspicious character making a commotion. As the bearded stranger approached the door of No. 2031, he died in a fusillade of police bullets...
...notices "a big green couch so weighty and shapeless that it looked as if it had been hoisted out of 40 feet of water." She registers the sounds of dawn: "There were cries of birds, sharp and rudimentary, that stung like sparks or hail." And the look of dusk: "The sky glowed like a candled...
...pleasantly surprised. Despite the frigid and turbulent conditions--the race had been delayed till dusk--it proved an exhilirating moment. The last traces of sunlight scraped the horizon, and the sky grew pink, then azure, with the Boston skyline silhouetted in the background...
...there appeared to be few classical music lovers in San Salvador's barrios. The guerrilla attacks were beaten off by withering rifle fire and grenade attacks by the army. The government declared martial law and a dusk-to-dawn curfew. Less than 24 hours after the start of the offensive, Junta President José Napoleón Duarte called a press conference to deride the leftist efforts as "an absolute failure." Stores and businesses opened as usual the next day, and workers generally stayed on their jobs...