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Battle on the Pampas. Deep in the heart of the pampas, insurgent army units led by Brigadier General Dalmiro Felix Videla Balaguer-until recently a well-regarded Peronista-swept into the rail center of Córdoba, Argentina's third biggest city (pop. 350,000). Two Gloster Meteor jet fighters flown by air-force pilots rained down leaflets declaring that the city "has been conquered again for God and the fatherland." Rebel sailors took over the naval bases at Rio Santiago and Puerto Belgrano (see map). Army garrisons seized control of the inland barracks towns of Arroyo Seco...
...beauty of The Kentuckian is not in the raw yarn, but in the loving country touch with which it was homespun. The script, taken from The Gabriel Horn, a novel by Felix Holt, was put together by A. B. Guthrie Jr., who has published, in The Big Sky and The Way West, two excellent books on the winning of the West. By his skillful doing, the wheezy conventional apparatus of the Hollywood western-all the bang-bang and fistic shindy-is merged in the green world of quiet woods and early custom, like a shiny, store-bought backwoods still that...
Americans should not look to the Supreme Court for decisions on the wisdom of legislative policies, Felix Frankfurter, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, said in the opening address of the three-day Marshall Conference...
...operator in a fashionable hotel. At about this time, his fingers stick to a lady's jewel case, and soon they are stroking the lady herself with such skill that she begs him to steal the rest of her valuables too. He obliges. And so it goes, until Felix is off on a world tour with the title of marquis (bogus) and letters of credit (genuine) on banks from Lisbon to Singapore...
Nevertheless, despite its faults, the book is a compelling kind of success. For Mann's writing has, to a degree that few of his contemporaries could equal, what Felix Krull calls "the ineffable power, which there are no words monstrously sweet enough to describe, that teaches the firefly to glow." There comes a moment on almost every page when the words glow, and the reader, charmed, follows the firefly into the dark...