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Wealthy ex-Smuggler Juan March (el Ultimo Pirato del Mediterráneo-also called el Yanqui), whose gold financed Francisco Franco's Fascist triumph over Republican Spain, once said of himself: "I can smell money." Now nearing 90, his nostrils are still sensitive. Last week they sensed a dismal future for the regime Juan March had helped to power...
...senum agunt, re vera ad similitudinem accedunt, baculis suis innituntur, barbas suas permulcent; qui partes invenum agunt, maxime iuveniles esse videntur--fervidi, ebriost, prodigi. Practerea enm personas et omne proscaenium theatre Romano simillimum spectabitis ac tibias audietis, putabitis ves non Cantabrigiae in Aula Memoriae sedere sed Romae ipso saecule ultimo ante Christum natum esse et veram Plauti comoediam ante oculos habere...
...ULTIMO-John & Ruth Vassos-Dutton...
Will glaciers once again, as in prehistoric times, creep slowly down from the poles, herding all animal life into the equatorial belt, gradually covering the whole world? John and Ruth Vassos, historically imaginative, in Ultimo give a picture of what may happen when the ice has driven man off the face of the earth...
...Ultimo is an imaginary record, written by a man of those far-future times, of what life was like to subterranean man. For as the ice spread and the earth grew colder, civilization either died or dug. First it "established itself around the equator, a civilization of peoples with one dominating idea-to continue to exist. Great circular cities were built consisting of low buildings which hugged the ground . . . cities like gigantic mushrooms, walled and roofed in materials magnifying the little warmth that still emanated from the sun, shutting out snow and cold." Finally even these failed. "Into the frozen...