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...been confined in Managua's Intercontinental Hotel grew increasingly panicky. Finally, they were called into a post-midnight session. They unanimously accepted Somoza's resignation and conferred the blue-and-white sash, symbolic of the presidency, on his longtime flunky, former Health Minister Francisco Urcuyo Maliaño. As soon as the session adjourned, most of the lawmakers lit out for the airport or to the foreign embassies that had offered them asylum. They carried away everything they could. One politician was seen struggling with three automobile tires that he had kept hidden in his room...
...Malia P. Lunday...
...Leila (Malia Phillips), 25, is a Greenwich Village painter of Persianesque miniatures who has red hair that cascades almost to her ankles. A graduate of Hollywood High School, she likes to imagine herself, as she takes the floor, "a village girl coming in to a festival...
Pity the poor history major. His troubles began with departures to other coleges, were compounded by vacations, were aggravated by sabatticals, and were culiminated by Guggenheim Fellowships. The exodus leaves the department without Gilmore, Hammond, McKay, Schlesinger, Wolff, Bailyn, Conway, and McGann; Malia in the springtime; Albion and Graubard in the fall. So pity the history major as he tries to find a professor. Sorrow for him as he searches for courses with which to pass generals. Grieve for him as he looks for Greece, early Rome, most of the Middle Ages, half of Renaissance and Reformation, Russia from...
...wording of the letter, which refers to "Stalin's election to the Central Committee of the party." The term "the Party" is to be a considered post-revolution term for referring to the Communist Party, casting doubt as to whether the letter was actually written in 1913, Malia said...