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...bladderball game, for example. This is a form of sport in which three or four thousand Yalies lock themselves inside the Old Campus with a huge canvas ball. There appears to be no object to it except to immerse oneself in a surging tide of flesh, heaving violently in one direction after another in pursuit of the ball. The specter of academic pressure seems to preside over this activity, as it does over every activity at Yale. Last year the bladderball was removed to Kingman Brewster's lawn and, while the president of Yale stood on his porch, drink...
...longer head of the Spanish government? The importance of the Basque country to the Spanish economy is undeniable. Bilbao is the "Pittsburgh of Spain"--and the government's long struggle to repress the separatist movement can be expected to continue. However, the tension created by the presence of thirty-thousand paramilitary police in the north has not succeeded in discouraging separatist sentiment but rather has served to fan the flames of disenchantment with the present regime even among the most conservative factions of the Basque leadership. Imposition of arbitrary search and seizure measures, detainment without charges, and isolated incidents...
...casualties--including dead, wounded, missing, and forcibly exiled. Of these casualties, 21,780 men, women and children had been executed. When the rebel forces (including Italian and German Fascist mercenary troops) occupied Bilbao, General Franco's first decree was to abolish the independence of the Basque country. Over thirty-thousand Basques-men and women-were imprisoned without due process, and more than two-hundred thousand Basques were forced into exile. Arbitrarily, by decree, the use of the Basque language was prohibited. On March 17, 1937, Franco, again by decree, prohibited the use of the Basque language in the churches...
...includes roughly a thousand people who represent the framework of American authority and substance. A goodly bunch of them came jetting out of Dallas, Beverly Hills, Akron and Cedar Springs, Mich., for ceremony and tribute to Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, our new pal in the Middle East...
...Hold!" as if they had just sold the lot he was talking about. Their enthusiasm would be contagious, and since the land contracts were right there on the tables, guests would impulsively sign on the dotted line. In so doing, they committed themselves to purchases ranging from a few thousand dollars to a high of $11,000 for arid half-acre homesites that had cost AMREP about $90. The buyers were usually middle-and lower-class working people; a plot at Rio Rancho was their dream. Its value would double, triple, quadruple, they were assured, but they were not allowed...