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Until last week, Jilma Bejarano, an illiterate mestizo, servant girl in Caracas, had never seen as much as 100 bolivars ($30) at one time. Now she has 209,503 bolivars (more than $62,000), plans to buy three houses, bring her six illegitimate children from the country to the city. Jilma is a winner of the five-and-six, Caracas' long-shot version of the U.S. daily double...
Until he quarreled with his country's masters, Strauss was a servant of the Nazis. Because he is old and they are proud of him, the Germans have dropped all denazification proceedings against him. His works are frequently played in Germany now, and his past errors generally forgiven. Since the war, he has lived in privacy in small Swiss resorts, occasionally working at music. His only income, about $1,000 a year, has come from royalties on Swiss and Swedish performances of his works...
...invisible as so many native New Yorkers. There were some exceptions. At the Waldorf-Astoria, Saudi Arabia's lean, bearded Prince Feisal could be seen plainly as he whispered with Iraq's jumpy Fadhil Jamali, surrounded by a bodyguard packing gold swords and blue-steel .453. The Servant of God and Sword of Islam, Abdullah Saif, would cool his heels in luxurious comfort at the Sherry-Netherlands while the Assembly debated the admission of his tiny state of Yemen...
...mind" sequences are neither novel nor completely clear. At least the purpose of the whimsy in the Pinocchio--Jiminy Cricket combo was evident from beginning to end, but here Massey's mind is a rebellious servant, while Massey minus mind is a master. The idea is frightening, betokening perhaps a now return to sentimental emotionalism, where we send though packing and live in a make-believe world of noble savgery...
...Then I am your servant and no more your master. ... He who lays down his liberty in that act receives it back. Go down to Mother Kirk...