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...swore simply to "protect and insure protection of the Constitution." Outgoing President Miguel Alemán turned over the green, white and red sash of office. Ruiz Cortines thereupon became the 48th President of Mexico. His inauguration address was low-voiced and prosaic, his only gesture a finger pointed straight in the air. "We will open a new era in the history of Mexico," he said...
...Francisco cigar store, had to have a lot of help from relatives to pay the bills.) It looked as though Billy had cerebral palsy, but recently, at the University of California Hospital in San Francisco, tests showed no damage to Billy's brain. A visiting British neurologist thereupon had a hunch...
...free travel between East Bengal (East Pakistan) and West Bengal (India). Under cover of this agreement, trade (and smuggling) between the two countries flourished to such an extent that some Hindus unwisely began to speak of a reunited Bengal. That was when Pakistan decided to restrict free travel; India thereupon decided to meet ban with...
...Thereupon Malaparte proceeds, with crude but cruel satiric effect, to lead a number of U.S. officers (and indirectly his readers too) on a macabre tour through the gutters of wartime Naples. He shows mothers who sell their children into prostitution; but then, says Malaparte with a smirk, there are also the children who would gladly sell their mothers. He dwells for part of a chapter on a street peopled with twisted female dwarfs, who fed, he asserts gleefully, on the unnatural lusts of the American ranks. Another chapter is concerned with a visit to a shop that sells blonde merkins...
...long delusion of Grandier to an end. In Huxley's interpretation, her native hysteria was aggravated by the abnegations of convent life; she began to have daydreams, and later night sweats, about the handsome priest. She offered him the post of director of her convent, and Grandier refused. Thereupon, as Huxley reads the evidence, Sister Jeanne's fantasies turned into a mania for sadistic revenge...