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...Filipinos feel discriminated against, regarding themselves as poor relations" in respect to financial aid from the United States and the upholding of the "one-sided" parity treaty, Primo Tongko, Filipino political scientist, asserted last night at the International Seminar...
...Spain's fratricide was too bloody and too recent. Loyalists refused to have their dead entombed with their enemies; Franco's own Nationalists objected to burial beside Loyalists. "Absolutely not," snapped Pilar Primo de Rivera, sister of Falangist Founder Jose Antonio, when she heard that Franco planned to move her brother's body from El Escorial (where Spain's kings are entombed...
Self-Exiled. Unamuno continued to teach at the university, and politically he worked for the Republicans against the monarchy, but when Primo de Rivera's dictatorship took over in 1923, he attacked the new militarists, and the dictator forced him into exile in the Canary Islands. Although amnesty was granted a few months later, he exiled himself to Paris. By this time, his was the greatest literary name in the Hispanic world, and after Primo de Rivera's death, he returned to Salamanca with national acclaim. But Don Miguel was really a Don Quixote, and his Quixote...
Schulberg's story is, with scarcely any disguise, the Primo Carnera story. Like the onetime (1933-34) heavyweight champion, Toro Moreno ("El Toro, the wild man of the Andes") is a big country bumpkin who stands 6 ft. 7¾ in., weighs 285 Ibs., and serves his opponents a punch that would scarcely be too stiff for a six-year-old's birthday party. Like Carnera, El Toro (touchingly portrayed by Wrestler Mike Lane) falls among thieves. A well-known gambler and fixologist named Nick Benko (played good and heavy by Rod Steiger) buys up his contract...
...Primo pro nummata vini, ex hac bibunt libertini; semel bibunt pro captivis, post hec bibunt ter pro vivis, quater pro Christianis cunctis, quinquies pro fidelibus defunctis, sexies pro sororibus vanis, septies pro militibus silvanis...