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...Flying Eagle. The Holy Week of which Aragon writes is the chaotic, rain-drenched and rumor-filled week between Palm Sunday and Easter in 1815. Napoleon, having just escaped from Elba, was marching up to Paris to begin the historic Hundred Days, which were to end with Waterloo. And as Napoleon approached-"the Eagle flying from steeple to steeple," rallying to his standard the regiments sent against him-King Louis XVIII, fat and fatuous, was fleeing north toward the Belgian border amid a confusion of loyal musketeers and grenadiers...
...recorded music schedule for Matthews Hall Common Room this Saturday from 3-5 p.m. will be Moussorgsky's A Night on Bare Mountain and Khovanshhina (selections); Borodin's Quartet no. 2 in D major and In the Steppes of Central Asia; Rimsky-Korakov's Russina Easter Overture; Gliere's Red Poppy and Russian Sailors' Dance, Prokofiev's Symphony no. 6, Opus 111; and Pakhmutova's Concerto for trumpet in E flat minor...
...they are often as thick as cockroaches. A favorite spot is under or even in a bed, where the bugs might pick up useful leads for blackmail. For many U.S. families in Iron Curtain countries, sleuthing for bugs has become a kind of sport, an indoor counterpart to the Easter egg hunt. One couple in a satellite capital boasts that its cocker spaniel can sniff out a bug as surely as a pig snuffling a truffle. But new bugs always take their place...
...eggshell tree. Dyed Easter egg shells are Scotch-taped to a branch that is painted with Scuff-Kote shoe polish. The Kerrs make one every Easter...
...fish were already rising. In recent weeks, the equivalent of 50 freight carloads of aerial bombs, rockets, ammunition and firearms was airlifted into Puerto Cabezas by unmarked U.S. C-54s, C-46s and C-47s, in such quantities that on some days last month planes required momentary stacking. During Easter week, 27 U.S. C124 Globemasters roared in three or four at a time to off-load full cargoes of rations, blankets, ammunition and medical supplies at the U.S.-built airstrip at Retalhuleu, at Guatemala City and at Guatemala's San José airbase...