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...recollection that things have been worse. Riot and rebellion are a student tradition in the Western world; university records from the Middle Ages abound in accounts of pitched battles, rapes and homicides. A proclamation of 1269 denounced the scholars of Paris who "by day and night atrociously wound and slay many, carry off women, ravish virgins, and break into houses...
...King at Scone, he promptly sent to warn England's Edward I that "he would defend himself with the longest stick he had." Edward, the master of a nation six times the size of tiny (pop. 400,000) Scotland, disdainfully instructed his legate in Scotland to "burn and slay and raise dragon" in the land. On June 19, at Methven field, the English scattered the rebel forces with great slaughter. King Robert's wife, daughter and sister were captured-in the spirit of fair prey, the English shut his sister up in a cage and hung...
Slavonic Bill Holden. Marton, 42, is managing director of Zagreb-based Sljeme Agricultural Industrial Corp., whose sales last year topped $37 million -a fourteenfold increase in eight years. Sljeme (pronounced Slay-me) now owns four farms stocked with 20,000 head of cattle, 100,000 pigs, 2,000,000 poultry, and ponds full of trout and carp. It employs 3,500 workers and has four large factories that produce everything from semiprepared "TV dinners" to pickled pigs' feet for sale in its 60 food stores, eight restaurants and one hotel. And it makes its deliveries in its own fleet...
...Berlin. In Sicily, Hamilton spurns Betty Grable pinups for shots of Soviet recruits. "I'd like to meet a Russian G.I. sometime, some day," he moons. His odd fixation presages the picture's climax-a senseless knife fight between Hamilton and a Russian soldier (Albert Finney), who slay one another in the ruins of Berlin...
...that still passes for the history of France during World War II, he has always made an ideal ogre-a sinister greasy eminence who bamboozled the National Assembly into capitulating in 1940 and dragged Marianne in the muck by collaborating with Germany. When gallant Charles de Gaulle returned to slay this monster and (with some small American help) deliver France from thralldom, his countrymen threw Laval into a traitor's grave, hoping that five years of national guilt and failure might be buried with...