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...Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., such arguments are anything but new. He can imagine similar criticism in Spain in the 1490s: "Why in hell are Ferdinand and Isabella giving all that money to that madman Columbus when they could build a good nunnery or a hostel or something?" The present answer to that question is a matter of hard political reality-which is another way of saying, national will. Space has seized the nation's imagination; other causes so far, have not. Dollars not saved in space would not automatically be allocated to poverty, or cities, or air-pollution control...
...name, and those, marshaled in Argentina for the past four months by shapely Isabel PerÓn, el lider's third wife, who would-understandably-favor el retorno of PerÓn from Spain. Even that diversion may soon end. Last week El Lobo ("the Wolf") ousted Isabella's chief lieutenant, José Alonso, as general secretary of the giant General Confederation of Labor. If Peronism should ever triumph, it looks more and more as though the strongman will have to enjoy his reign mainly from Spain...
Brain Damage. Though Rhode Island's effort was the most dramatic, it was by no means the only major attack against measles in progress or in the planning stage. In Michigan's Isabella County, after an outbreak in which 92 cases were reported-and 900 suspected-2,076 children were vaccinated in a drive that ended last week. With federal backing, 36 states and 41 communities are setting up vaccination campaigns...
Friar Thomas and his boyhood friend Don Alvero de Rafel ride from Segovia to Seville at the summons of Ferdinand and Isabella. Each man is consulted about Columbus' projected expedition west to the Indies. Don Alvero, a knight who has fought the Moors, assures the Queen that the earth is indeed round like a ball. The King, however, turns down Columbus on the grounds that 1) the earth is flat, and 2) Columbus is a Jew. Actually, Columbus was not Jewish, but for some odd reason Fast does not bother to enlighten the King or the reader...
Brittle Glories. Typical is Valladolid (pop. 158,000), a grey stone city on the Castilian plateau. Known to the 8th century Arab invaders as Belad Walid (Governor's Town), it was for 450 years the court of Spain's Christian kings. Ferdinand and Isabella were married there in 1469; Columbus died there in 1506; Cervantes probably wrote the first part of Don Quixote there. But its glories were brittle, and Valladolid faded into a shabby market center and rail junction...