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General Franco's notorious inability to think of any solution for the problems that beset Spain was never more in evidence than in the past month. A heavy-hoofed inflation is galloping through the Spanish economy. Franco's henchmen handed down two wage increases last year, and though they tardily ordered shopkeepers to keep prices pegged, the cost of living has leaped 25%. Last week, spurred by an announced 20 centimo (½?) rise in streetcar fares, the people of Barcelona (pop. 1,280,000) decided to make a protest. Word raced through the Catalonian capital...
...While the cannon boomed, and Del Sesto supporters angrily stormed out of the Statehouse growling "robbery" and "dictatorship," smiling Denny Roberts took his oath, in his own private office, surrounded by cops, state troopers, newsmen and henchmen. There was no inaugural address-just a Roberts' statement justifying the necessity of court action to resolve a "grave constitutional issue...
...fight for "independent Communism." The Kremlin's hard-line Politburocrats have gathered pledges of support from all the satellites except Poland, and from the big Communist Parties of France and Italy, leaving Yugoslavia and Poland almost isolated in insisting on "separate ways to socialism." Nervously, Tito's henchmen considered the possibility that Soviet isolation of Yugoslavia might even extend to a rupture of the "state relations" signed by Khrushchev and withdrawal of the economic aid (some $500 million in loans and credits) that the Soviet bloc has granted Yugoslavia since last spring...
Shark No. 1 is Mr. MacHeath, legendary killer and gang leader, once popularly known as "The Knife." At novel's start, Mac still has his gang, though none but his intimate henchmen know it, and while he carries a swordstick cane, he is prudent enough never to use it. Mac is a progressive crook who has come to see not the error of his ways but his means: "What is a picklock compared to a debenture share? What is the burgling of a bank compared to the founding of a bank? What is the murder of a man compared...
...subjects abandoned her. By spring she was facing bankruptcy. Nannarella sought out Gigi. "Give me back my subjects," she said, "and I'll let you have all my remaining potatoes." Gigi only laughed, so Nannarella slapped him hard across the face. One of Gigi's brawny henchmen seized her arm and began to twist it, but the victorious captain only smiled, "Let her go." That evening as Nannarella wandered disconsolate and alone, she met Gigi again. "Thank you for stopping that man," she said, and Gigi smiled again. The two wandered along together in the moonlight. A month...