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As part of the "Twenty-Five Years of Peace" celebration, Franco has declared amnesty for all Republicans whose "crimes" antedate the end of the civil war. The Generalissimo evidently hopes that the war and its pains can now be forgotten. With forgetfulness, though, will come a change in Spanish politics...
The President tempered his good news with a warning to businessmen not to begin a new round of inflation. "With strong markets, with steady costs, with lower taxes, American business does not need higher price levels to assure continued growth and profits." Later in the week, he suggested that businessmen...
Costa e Silva had the same message for Carlos Lacerda, the able but terrible-tempered governor of Guanabara state (mainly the city of Rio), who has high ambitions for the presidency in 1965. At one point last week, Lacerda began shouting at the general. Costa e Silva told him to...
A Way to Live. Sargent was born in Florence in 1856 to a weak-willed Phil adelphia doctor whose wife expatriated his family to a never-ending Grand Tour of Europe. He never saw the U.S. until 1876, learning his art in fashionable Parisian ateliers. This pursuit was largely a...
The Well-Tempered Blade. Nonetheless, fencing in the U.S. today is a fast-rising sport. Thanks to the electrified blade point, which causes a light to flash when contact is made, scoring is no longer a matter of subjective judgment. The loud cries and balletic fencing that often influenced judges...