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Spreading Boycott. There was nothing the police or the Guardia Civil could do. But students ringing a triumphant peal on the university bells gave the heavy-handed cops the excuse they needed. A police riot squad, backed by a fire-department engine squirting dye-stained water, charged into a group of 200 students in the College of Arts and Letters. Later, red-bereted Franco Guards reported a "black deed" committed by the students: a university portrait of Franco was missing and turned up later behind the medical school, with the word TRAITOR written across it. Governor Felipe Acedo Colunga closed...
...dominant passion generates a dominant fear, the fear of its non-fulfillment. Every dominant fear generates a nightmare. . . ." Russell's own solution: that every man summon in his mind a parliament of fears, in which each in turn is voted absurd by all the others. What would Norman Vincent Peal say? It hardly matters. The dreamers in Russell's little book did not follow the advice of either philosopher...
...peal of Jezebels...
...Love Remembers like no-hitters in The Official Baseball Guide. It was in 1946 that Yaleman ('06) Janney rang out his bestselling Miracle of the Bells (TIME, Sept. 16, 1946), and since 1951 he has been back in the old belfry composing a bigger and better supernatural peal. So Long as Love Remembers is the story of a young Viennese musician named "Tightpants" Halka, who emigrates to the U.S. under the protection of three guardian spirits: a Knight Templar (the one who saves Olga from Harvard), the Cloisters statue of the Madonna and an ex-captain...
...Administration to a highwayman who says: "Now give me your wallet. I know I ought not to do it . . . but I need the money, and I give you my solemn assurance ... I will never do it to you again." Smith's sally drew laughs, including a hearty peal from Dan Reed. But when the vote came, it was an overwhelming 325 to 77 for extension...