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Gathering some of his closest associates around him, Perón consolidated his gains in a radio speech. It was sweetly reasonable in tone, but both his words and his voice were strong and confident. He bore down hard on an effective point: the rebels' disregard for the lives...
Born in 1894, in an era of sanctioned pogroms, Babel did not need to see his father in the mud to have a firsthand knowledge of the ordeal of a Russian Jew. In The Story of My Dovecot, Babel tells how his dearest childhood dream was to own some pigeons...
The desert sands stretch north, south and west as far as the eye can see outside the efficient, modern executive offices of the Arabian American Oil Co. in Dhahran. The headaches that keep Aramco's bosses awake at night are largely conditioned by the sands, for Aramco, in bringing...
A few sentimental (and thrifty) competitors actually drove their cars to the race. But the quaint tradition that a sports car is a practical vehicle, designed for everyday use, seemed as antiquated as the Stanley Steamer or the solid-rubber tire. Well-heeled pros who turned up for the Florida...
All but Bimba ("Get away? Just to change the mosquitoes? No, thanks") are hooked on the same cruel question mark: How to get back to civilization? Suddenly they get a vein-freezing answer. An oil well catches fire. Only an explosion can put it out. The nearest nitroglycerin sits in...