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They got only as far as the town of Asola (pop. 2,304) and there sweated out the rest of the European war, on the second floor of a pink stucco house at No. 30 Via Toresano. The German headquarters was at No. 35, two houses away. Because the Germans' drill ground was directly across the street, they could not walk near a window. They never talked above a whisper...
Before the yellow stucco house at No. 114 Rua 7 de Setembro in the dirty little town of Rio Casca in Minas Gerais State, some 8,000 people, a mosaic of the diseases of Brazil, had been softly singing the haunting hymn I Shall Be with My Mother. The faded grey shutters of the house swung open. A hush came over the malformed, the sick, the hopeful and the curious. One man fell on his knees. Behind him a weeping father supported a son on whose face was an idiot's grin...
...will now bless the water, the candles, the medals." Thousands of hands were instantly stretched overhead, and in the shabby cobbled street, flanked on each side by one-story stucco houses, all built on stilts, one saw only the waving uncorked bottles-beer bottles, whiskey bottles, thermos jugs, casks and demijohns. Some people held up candles, some picture postcards of Padre Antonio, some cheap Virgin Mary medallions...
...reporters scribbled quietly and intently. They were jammed into a small room in the grey stucco auditorium at Santa Cruz, Calif., and Ohio's Republican Senator Robert A. Taft was not a man to raise his voice. Looking professorial in his neat blue suit, Bob Taft was talking matter-of-factly, almost abstractedly, as if he were speaking across a committee table. But for a fraction of a second, every man in the room looked up and stared as if the Senator had just pulled out his penknife, opened it, and absently swallowed...
Urging the need to uphold the "principle of authority," the Government closed the school. But 900 students barricaded themselves in the grey stucco building, stayed there even when the Government cut off light, food, water. Outside, armed police, on horse and afoot, laid siege...