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...crowded August yet in the 100-year history of the French Riviera, a place which in Queen Victoria's day thought itself a winter resort. From Menton on the Italian border all along the beautifully indented 165-mile coast to La Ciotat outside Marseille, the sunlit Côte d'Azur was jammed with a half-million vacationing Frenchmen and hundreds of thousands of foreign tourists...
...Quito (alt. 9,000 ft.) one cool morning last week, salvos of artillery and clanging bells from 150 churches awakened the capital and nation. People poured into the winding streets, cheered 6,000 parading soldiers and 25 stunting jets. President Camilo Ponce Enríquez attended a Te Deum in the 412-year-old cathedral, reviewed goose-stepping cadets, and recalled for assembled foreign diplomats and Houses of Congress a day in August 1809-the hour of "greatest Ecuadorian glory...
...their first stormy kiss. "I was so happy I wished I could die," says Maria. On the way back to the car, Hitler told her that his ideal was to marry and have blond children, but that he must save Germany first. After that, there were tète-à-tètes in Hitler's Munich apartment, and they dreamed aloud of their future together...
...proved true in the border province of Kham, where the Reds had been longer in control. The lamaseries of Kham were looted of their treasure and their land collectivized. Nomad Khamba tribesmen were driven from the pastureland they had used for centuries. Tribal chiefs resented their loss of power te the commissars. The Khambas, great shaggy men often 6 ft. tall, with leather boots, 3-ft. swords and rifles they are born and die with, fought back. Snipers bushwhacked lone Red couriers on the new road to Lhasa. Khamba bands ambushed military convoys. The embittered monks drove off the Chinese...
...that I know," I said. I chinned myself penitently a half a dozen times on the molding over the doorway. When I turned around again, he was asleep, breathing heavily. I covered his face with my pajama top, but Charpentier's Te Deum on the hi-fi, and set off towards the john...