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...special weakness of Fast's tale. In fashioning Torquemada as a demented racist and centering his story on the plight of the Jew, Fast ignores history. The Inquisition was concerned with heresy not heredity; it was Catholic Spain's method of safeguarding theological doctrine. Less than one-fourth of Torquemada's 8,800 victims at the stake, in fact, were impenitent Jews...
...one knows exactly how sick the Spanish economy was; the regime had no way of compiling proper statistics and went out of its way to obscure the ones it had. But by 1959 all signs were bad. At least one-fourth of Spain's total imports, from whisky to machinery, were being smuggled in. The peseta was swinging wildly on the black market. Inflation was rising, production was actually falling...
...them open on a round-the-clock basis. Credit purchasing has been added to catalogues, and deliveries have been speeded up. Catalogue prices run 4% under those of retail stores because of savings in sales forces and advertising. Catalogue sales, as a result, now account for more than one-fourth of all sales volume and are growing fast...
...Summons. The nation's second largest steel company, Bethlehem is the leader in structural shapes, with 38% of production. But structural steel itself comprises a mere 7% of total production-and Bethlehem's hike would have added only one-fourth of 1% to the Government's steel price index. Moreover, Bethlehem pointed out, because of new, stronger, lighter structural steels, construction users now pay less than they did five years ago for equivalent jobs...
...About one-fourth of the film will be shot at Harvard, and production will begin when "there's snow on the ground." Girard said. The roving Kotch will also make appearances in New York, Denver, and Los Angeles...