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Rafael Ramírez said that when he completed his biochemistry course, he planned "to devote myself to the service of the revolution, wherever it might send me." The students were all talking about Africa, explained Elio Jiménez, a dark-skinned economist. "Because of the blood of our African ancestors, we cannot sit by idly and watch counterrevolutionary bandits snatch victory away from Comrade Agostinho Neto in Angola...
...courtly Missourian has been helping Democrats out of jams for three decades. Last week elegant, silver-haired Clark Clifford, sometimes peering through a pince-nez, was at the side of pudgy, rumpled Bert Lance, carefully guiding him through the thicket of charges and questions. As Lance read his occasionally theatrical opening statement, Co-Author Clifford silently mouthed the words along with him. At one point the Senators paused in their rambling cross-examination to ask Clifford's expert help in interpreting a loan agreement that had been signed by his client. Clifford was the coolest and best-prepared person...
There are strange misproportions too. High Noon, as a parable of the cold war, merits a paragraph. Mark Twain's career is summed up in a sentence. Chief Joseph's picture is in the book, but not his moving farewell to his Nez Perce Indians: "I will fight no more forever." The Great Republic has long and genuinely informative passages on demographics -but too often the people are simply numbers, without faces or names...
...urged abstention, coaxed 22.5% of the voters into staying away from the polls. Diehard Franquistas, who viewed the reform as "the antechamber of Communism," were thoroughly repudiated; only 2.6% of the voters cast opposing ballots. "The people," said Christian Democratic Leader Joaquin Ruíz-Giménez, "are not for a return to formulas that have died forever...
...After he was fired from an instructor's job at Wabash College when a prostitute was found in his rooms, Pound showed up in London at 23 wearing a piratical red beard, green felt trousers, pink jacket, hand-painted Japanese tie, huge sombrero, one turquoise earring, and pince-nez...