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Envenomed by repression, all the sisters fall madly in love with Pepe El Romano, who is engaged to the eldest, Angustias. Night after night the youngest, Adela, slips outside to make love to Pepe in a barn. The ugliest sister, Martirio, informs Bernarda. In an outburst of fury the widow shoots Pepe. Adela hangs herself...
...damages sought to $2,900,000. If they collect, the plaintiffs said they would use the money to make a movie depicting the medical advances achieved through vivisection. Said famed Physiologist Anton J. Carlson, president of the society: "Medical science . . . refuses to be the goat any longer for the ugliest and most baseless vilification campaign of our times...
...however, Earl Baldwin fared less well. He affronted Whitehall by suggesting that the Colonial Office stop sending him suggestions and start sending money. He snooted officials of the U.S. military base on Antigua, and at one ball for blacks and whites condescended to dance only "with the blackest and ugliest" woman in the room. His favorite luncheon guest was a small pickaninny who wore nothing but a vest and a broad smile. Such eccentricities, the white colony complained, were a bad influence on the restless natives. Earl Baldwin was summarily ordered to take a plane home "to discuss Leeward...
...Malmédy massacre. All were found guilty and 43 sentenced to death. It seemed an open-&-shut case. But the Germans' defense counsel (appointed by the U.S.), an Atlanta lawyer named Willis Meade Everett Jr., had discovered facts which turned the case into one of the ugliest in the history of the war crimes trials...
...Durban last week, white South Africans were privileged to view one of the ugliest representations of man man ever wrought-Sculptor Jacob Epstein's primeval Adam. In accordance with the Nationalist government's policy of apartheid (segregation), Indians and Negroes were barred from the exhibit. Roared big-fisted Sculptor Epstein in London: "The Adam was intended to represent the beginnings of all men . . . Under such Nazi principles of racial selectivity the subject of the statue himself would not be allowed to have a look...