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...apart. Life in Madrid is a pattern in extremes. The capital has Europe's most elegant and epicurean restaurants; among the best is the one operated by the famed German restaurateur Otto Horcher, who used to serve Nazi bigwigs in Berlin, Vienna and Paris. Store windows on the Gran Via display nylons, furs, silks, satins, perfumes...
...dinner in the Gran Hotel, Rios heard speakers damn the Somoza regime. Since the Chilean embassy is located in the hotel, it was technically inviolable. Somoza's police, attempting to enter and arrest the speakers, were thrown out. Later the police formed a cordon around the hotel. Some Nicaraguans stayed on & on, not daring to leave...
CAMP RIDGE, Oct. 6 (BC)--Having done up Brown the soulful strains of "Lamar, Lamar, Lamar," at tonight's pep rally, Crimson supporters will gird their loins to see the Bovine Cowen a play Garrityed to make gran-pappy say, "Geeson, old Eliott to think twice about things, in Casey hopes for a post-season game...
...taken from Rome to Ponza . . . to the island of Maddalena . . . to the Gran Sasso [in the Apennines 75 miles northeast of Rome] according to a plan which provided for my being handed over to the enemy...
...Seversky) did not really get into the big time until after the Mirandas' contracts had run out. One of their Latin-American deals ended, in 1940, in a Federal sentence for violating the President's 1934 neutrality proclamation by selling bombs to Bolivia (via Chile) in the Gran Chaco War. The bombs went into Curtiss-Wright planes and Curtiss pleaded guilty to the same charges - but the Mirandas were sent to Lewisburg Penitentiary while Curtiss got a $220,000 fine. This year their main American Armaments plant was requisitioned by the Government, turned over to Vultee...