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A Stamped Foot. This was the prelude to trouble. No one expected it, no one planned it. It flared in one spot, subsided, flared again blocks away, finally burned itself out in two hours.
From the ruins of the old U.S. Embassy a rain of bricks and stones drove the first police back in retreat and pelted every Soviet-licensed car in sight. Then reinforcements sped up and the crowd fell back; pistol shots cut the air and the first man fell, pitching forward...
After kneeling together before a 300-year-old altar in San José, the Presidents got off some conventional remarks, then flew to Corumba, where they swapped compliments and gifts. One sharp-eyed observer noted that Hertzog's gift to Dutra, a medallion engraved with the likenesses of the...
In Moscow, the army newspaper Red Star stated that a survival of religious faith in Russia was "hampering the triumphal progress toward Communism," and declared that this must be stamped out by "systematic, scientific, anti-religious propaganda."
Two centuries after his birth, David's place in art history was finally assured. He had lived through an age when history marched with a heavy and decisive tread, and he had stamped it with the mark of his genius and his will. His austere neo-classicism helped set...