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...Misfortunes. He found such a spirit harder and harder to main tain as the years went by. At 30, he was old-looking and exhausted. Thinking that marriage would settle him down, as well as pay his debts, he wed a Mos cow beauty 13 years his junior. "My hun dred and thirteenth love," he called her - a very modest estimate. Ironically, Pushkin's wife became a favorite at the Czar's court, and her flagrant flirtations threw him into fits of jealousy. Finally he challenged the boldest of her courtiers, the French-born Baron Georges...
...unstable nations." He blamed the failure to intervene in Hun ary in 1956 on Washington's "immoral and suicidal willingness to act as if there were Communist legitimacy." The U.S. had allowed itself to become intimidated by the fear of nuclear war, he said. "Above all," Laird concluded, "while we have the power, we must aim at confronting the enemy directly...
...fifth and sixth centuries, the spiritual prestige of Rome's bishop became complicated by the fact that he was a secular power as well. At the time of the barbarian invasions, the Popes emerged as Rome's most prestigious leaders. Leo I, who stopped Attila the Hun at the gates of Rome, was the first to use the term primacy in reference to the papacy. The Prankish King Pepin gave the Pope jurisdiction over central Italy-and for the next 1,000 years bishops of Rome were land-governing princes as well as the spiritual leaders of Western...
...appointment to speak produced an incendiary reaction. Among the first to explode was State Schools Superintendent Max Rafferty, a master of gothic prose and a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate. Said he: "Cleaver is certainly as well qualified to lecture on urban unrest as Attila the Hun would be qualified to lecture on international mass murder...
...Attila the Hun, one of the true visionaries of his day, wrested Central Europe from the Caspian to the Loire from the clutches of Teutonic tribes. Historians record that his unstinting effort laid the groundwork for what is known today as the Common Market...