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...government split up, and one faction-maybe the bigger faction-called itself the government, and pushed the smaller faction and the Premier out. The new government invited the Soviet forces to come back and quell the disturbances. I am giving the facts without any comment. The Soviet forces thereupon came back and dealt with a heavy hand with the people who were rebelling against the new government. This so far as I know is the story. Details I do not know...
...damn the entire clergy. The priests found an unexpected ally in Kyoto's Communists who. bitterly opposing the mayor on any count, promptly joined the fray with a sound truck that blared out the charge that Takayama was "persecuting religion." With their most pious mien, the priests thereupon barred the doors of their temples to all but "genuine worshipers," whom they admitted free. The definition of a "genuine worshiper"? One who agreed to make a "voluntary" (and hence taxfree) donation later...
...cuckolded husband broke into their bedroom on the dark midnight of Oct. 16, 1590, and slew the lovers, or had them slain. Later, convinced that the second child was not his, he shook the cradle so ferociously that the infant could not catch her breath and suffocated. Thereupon Gesualdo settled into a life of remorse and debauchery-he was so beset by evil "demons" that he had himself whipped daily-out of which came some of the world's most remarkable music...
...Maurice O'Connell, who was then raising funds to build himself a new house. Miss Tracy's story was too pointed for the old canon, who sued the newspaper, which settled out of court with an apology. Journalist Tracy (who, like her fictional hero, is thatch-headed), thereupon sued the Sunday Times on the grounds that its retraction reflected on her standing as a truthful journalist. A British court awarded her $8,400 damages (TIME, April 26, 1954). It was an entertaining case, covered in long columns in the Irish press, but Victor Tracy has apparently decided that...
...Force Band, then in Thailand on a world tour, Bishop stepped in and announced that he, and not the Thai air force, would sponsor the show. Printed programs featured pictures of Ambassador Bishop and Thailand's Premier, none of the top Thai airmen, who thereupon boycotted the show...