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Capitalism, substituting contracts for the natural ties that had linked people together in church-centered communities, rose triumphant on the wave of "freedom . . . from the apron strings of Mother Theology." Though it was destructive, says Demant, capitalism seemed to be successful for a century or so, because it was still riding upon an earlier period's religious structure and sense of community...
...watching the first performance of an opera by a Dutch composer named Simon van Milligen. In his report to the London Star, perspicacious young "Corno di Bassetto" (Shaw's pen name) was kind to the opera, but hooted at the company director's curtain speech about the triumphant establishment of a great national school of opera...
...looked like a triumphant day's work for the FBI. But next day, Portland police got to wondering about where Wayne Long had got the Ford truck, discovered that it was owned by a Portland carpenter. The carpenter's body was found 25 miles outside of town; he had been shot through the head with a large caliber bullet. Wayne Long was charged with first degree murder...
...Lima the junta sent secret police scurrying into the capital's luxurious Club Nacional, arrested dozens of "plotters." Blamed for the uprising were Montagne's small, conservative Civic Action party, the outlawed, impotent APRA party, and the surprised, feeble Peruvian Communists. Triumphant Odría told his countrymen: "The people of Peru have shown their unanimous support in my favor. The Arequipa rebellion was merely the exploitation of children and unwise ones who were tossed to sacrifice by wicked people." His onetime electoral rival Montagne was under arrest, awaiting deportation. In next month's election...
...80th's switch to flexible price supports, the party turned on it in the campaign and yelled that the Republicans were trying to slice the farmer's income. Thus did Harry Truman accomplish the near-impossible, the blending of the labor vote with the farm vote. The triumphant Democrats thought giddily of the future: Why not make the farmer-labor marriage permanent...