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...most part, our company, as well as most companies that market to the college student market, use American Student List," says Mendi Smith, the corporate communications director for Associates National Bank, one of the largest credit card providers in the country...
...before, when the Christian doctors of Vitoria had fled from the bubonic plague, Jewish doctors had come out of their ghetto to minister to the town's sick and dying. Vitoria's city fathers gave their bond to the departing Jews that their ancient cemetery, the Judiz Mendi (Jewish Hill), would never be "touched, wounded or tilled...
Vitoria kept its word. For 4½ centuries, the earth of the Judiz Mendi lay inviolate in the center of the growing city (pop. 50,000). In modern times, all marks of individual graves long lost, it has become a quiet, run-down park...
Last week four black-clad Jews arrived at Vitoria's town hall to complete the formalities. In return for their release, the city promised to put any bones found on Judiz Mendi into a memorial, to be built on the spot. Then the Jewish delegates, followed by members of the town council, walked to the old cemetery. Quietly they chanted the archaic Castilian of the Sephardic prayers for the dead. As they prayed, workmen in a corner of the plot began to dig the foundations of a new building, wounding the soil of Judiz Mendi for the first time...
...last week two unidentified submarines, presumably Rightist Spanish, German or Italian, opened fire on the Leftist freighter Andutz-Mendi, set it ablaze. Up the mast scrambled a sailor to hoist his shirt as a flag of surrender, had his head blown off by a freakish hit of one of the submarine's projectiles. Freakish too was the escape of the Rightist sea-raiding cruiser Almirante Cervera. She was caught by a Leftist air squadron which rained some 20 bombs, some so close that spray from their splashes spattered her decks, but zig-zagging frantically she opened up with...