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...dark, wet night A.D. 406, Caius Sempronius Felix, civil governor of Roman Britain, sat shivering all alone in a Hertfordshire bog with only a poor man's cloak against the wind, and wondered how in the world he had come to such a pass. The novelized story of Felix's fall, as told by Britain's Alfred Duggan in The Little Emperors, is the story of the fall of the Roman Empire in Britain...
...finalists, the two Casner clubs, will get their subject on February 1. Felix Frankfurter LL.B. '06, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, will handle the judging in the finals...
...Finger on the Trigger. The rest of the story is Copilot Felix Gaston's: "I thought to myself: I am a dead duck, a goner. Dear Lord, can't I even see my unborn child? I tried everything. I said I had eaten no breakfast and was dizzy. I pretended illness and asked for water and food. But he wouldn't open that door. I offered to intercede with [Defense Secretary Ramon] Magsaysay for him. I said the left engine was stalling and that we had to ditch the plane. I put on a life jacket, gave...
Music of Frederick Delius (Concert Arts Orchestra conducted by Felix Slatkin; Capitol). The famous On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring and four other pieces in a style whose closest artistic relatives are the misty pastorals of Painters Turner and Corot...
...members of the junta, Colonel Luis Felipe Llovera Páez, Minister of Interior, and Germán Suarez Flamerich, the mousy professor whom the colonels had propped up as President. After two days, Pérez Jiménez got the signed support of Chief of Staff Felix Moreno, and went on the air to declare himself President. He announced baldly that "correct" election returns gave the government a clear victory. Then he ordered the arrest of all U.R.D. officials...