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...could we, the working people of the Soviet Union, suffer our troops to look on indifferently in 1956 when the best sons of your people were being hanged? If we had not come to your aid, we would have been called fools, and history would not have forgiven us this foolishness...
...tale that readers of lending-library triangle stories will have no trouble appreciating. The enraged husband divorces his wife; years later they meet again. She is now another man's concubine and he is remarried; but love conquers, they go into a clinch, and all is forgiven. Being a decent chap, the hero keeps his new wife as well...
Later in the Laughton version, Lear's return to reason was a slow and convincing process. As the madness ebbed, the head stopped bobbing, the eyes grew steady, the back straightened. Every gesture showed a man returning to reality, to learning, understanding, forgiveness, until he is himself forgiven...
...advantage out of a withered old political melon: the controversial (and long since canceled) Dixon-Yates private-power contract with the AEC (TIME, June 28, 1954 et seq.). Anderson seems to be merely carrying on his longtime personal vendetta with Strauss. Also working against Strauss: scientists who have never forgiven him for crowbarring Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who fought hard against the H-bomb program in 1949, out of the General Advisory Committee chairmanship...
...skeptics. Says Cuzco Historian Enrique Gamarra Hernández: "Atahuallpa was never very popular among Cuzqueños. His father divided the overextended empire between his sons, Atahuallpa and Huascar. Atahuallpa defeated Huascar, took Cuzco, and eliminated the old Cuzco nobility. The Cuzqueños have never quite forgiven...