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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Tito drives through the streets of Belgrade in a bullet-proof car, accompanied by tanks and four truckloads of soldiers, crowds yell: "Tito, Ti-to!" (to the familiar rhythm of "Duce, Du-ce!"). Children chant: "Kral se zenio, Tito se borio" ("The King married, Tito fought"). Ancient ballads praising ex-King Peter's ancestor (Kara George, a prominent Serbian hero and hog farmer) are changed to fit Tito. Sample...
...Stuff. As Señorita Kruger, Hilda got around with the right, big-time politicians, soon picked up Spanish. She also did a few films. Then came war-and with it, the undeserved Nazi tag again...
...University of Mexico, where she studied sedulously, a professor asked: "But Señorita Kruger, you go to school day and night and you also act in the cine; when do you find time to do your spying?" Weekending in summery Cuernavaca, Hilda was called on by the town police. Hotel servants had dug out of her luggage suspicious accounts of troop movements: notes from her university course on Cortés' conquest of Mexico...
Harvard Student Councils have long deplored the indifference with which their actions and proposals were greeted. While the fact that the council was made a truly elected, representative body would not per se make the council's activities a matter of vital interest to every student, the students could at least feel that these activities were under popular control, and that the opinions expressed in the council meetings were not those of a select group...
...dangerous," she protested. She declared that he "used to beat himself up, scratch his face and bite my leg. There was a pretty bad time all around. He would beat his head against the wall. It was difficult to be married to a man like that." Said Señor Macoco, shocked: "I cannot imagine anything more ridiculous than biting a girl's leg. ... I have great admiration for legs, but not as victuals...