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...wedding day is rainy, a lucky omen in Brazil, and the wedding night so blissful that Author Machado slyly warns the reader: "Don't worry, I do not intend to describe it; human language does not possess forms proper to so great a task." Lucky in love, Bento is also lucky at law, partly because good friend Ezekiel shunts cases his way. And when Capitu bears a son, Bento insists on naming the child Ezekiel...
...pocketful of silver dollars is a temptation to keep on gambling, and $50,000 in dollars are always kept on hand. As an invitation to female gamblers, 60% of Harold's 330 carefully schooled dealers are women (who they have also discovered are "more reliable, more honest and possess better personalities [as dealers] than do men"). For customers who want to relax between long stretches at the tables, five bars are always open. But Harold's, which does not want them to relax so much that they have no time to gamble, sells no food...
Finally, as a bonus, MacArthur offered Harry Byrd his own updated formula for getting a decision in Korea: "We still possess the potential to destroy Red China's flimsy industrial base and sever her tenuous supply lines from the Soviet. This would deny her the resource to support modern war . . . and threaten the Soviet's present hold upon Asia. A warning of action of this sort provides the leverage to induce the Soviet to bring the Korean struggle to an end without further bloodshed. It would dread risking the eventuality of a Red China debacle, and such...
...generation of Russians taught by Pravda that Stalin was the greatest agriculturalist, philologist, geneticist, political scientist and military commander was told last week, just as categorically: "No matter how experienced leaders are, no matter what knowledge and talents they possess, they cannot succeed in replacing the whole collective. The most important principle is that decisions should be based on the experience of many, should be the fruit of collective creation...
...have in the past had to bear the brunt of each English team's travel expenses. Since the meets do not draw well here, the funds would this year, as usual, have to be provided outright by each college. The H.A.A. has decided that it does not this year possess the necessary two to three thousand dollars; Princeton, Yale, and Cornell are somewhat uncertain...