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When Massine's company first got to Perugia, a Rome newspaper ran a picture of French Ballerina Geneviève Lespagnol going through her rehearsal paces in ballet tights. Since she plays the Virgin Mary, the picture created quite a stir. A deputation of five Dominicans came around to keep an eye on rehearsals, but the company's directors managed to reassure them...
...preserve documents that might otherwise be lost. (One document that has been missing since 1891: the original state constitution.) He has expanded a program of restoring historic landmarks. And he has organized more than 1,000 junior chapters from which aspiring young historians sally forth to interview reminiscing oldtimers, stir up the dust in long-neglected attics and pore over half-forgotten town records...
Velasco's speech was enough to stir disquieting memories. His ill-timed, ungracious attack on Plaza's administration and his naked demand for special power sounded like the crotchety, irascible, impatient Velasco of old. In two earlier terms as President (1934-35, 1944-47), Velasco swung bewilderingly between left & right, flouted constitutions, railed unceasingly at "politicos with mouse minds" who "put banana peels in my way." He got the permanent nickname el loco (the loony), and finally made so many enemies that he was driven from office and packed into exile both times...
...that only the Zaibatsu could win-and ordinary people who did chance it were regarded as harebrained gamblers. Many banks flatly prohibited loans to "known stock buyers." But at World War II's end, when U.S. occupation forces confiscated Japanese securities once worth $15 billion, they tried to stir up public interest in buying stocks, hoping to prevent the rise of any new dominant clique. With the help of occupation officials, the Japanese government sponsored pamphlets, lectures and movies to convince the common people that stocks were as honorable as a bank deposit...
...five frantic hours they considered and rejected proposals. Qavam might be assassinated-but he was a hard man to get a shot at. They might stir up tribal revolts-but that would take too long. Finally, they agreed on a desperate, dangerous move: invite the Red toughs of the outlawed (Communist) Tudeh Party -whom they knew by bitter experience to be militant and well led-to fight in the street alongside them, against the army and the police. Makki summed up the instructions: "Launch a series of violent demonstrations no matter what their outcome-even revolution." The first was scheduled...