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...Gentile must be punished at least by ostracism, probably by death. Jacob is ransomed and eventually wanders to Lublin, but finds no comfort among the city's Jews, who seem to have forgotten the Cossack massacres. They have grown fat. "All this flesh was dressed in velvet, silk and sables. They were so heavy they wheezed; their eyes shone greedily. They spoke an only half comprehensible language of innuendoes, winks and whispered asides.'' Sickened by man and unable to love God, Jacob returns secretly to the Gazda village to find Wanda. They make their...
...telescopes to track the earth, the sun and the target. If they intend to rendezvous with other spacecraft, they will probably carry radars for judging distances and intricate devices to bring the two ships together. But when their assured, experienced captains guide them into the velvet blackness, they will be using manuals based on the flights-and the mistakes-of such early pioneers as Glenn and Carpenter...
...velvet and ermine, tiaraed and beribboned, Europe's royalty turned out in Athens this week for the wedding of Greece's Princess Sophie to Prince Juan Carlos, 24-year-old son of the Spanish Pretender, Don Juan. Through the sunny streets strolled some 5,500 Spanish monarchists, all hopeful that the marriage was an omen for the return of the Bourbons to Spain. But absent was the commoner who alone could decide whether Juan Carlos would ever take the Spanish throne: Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco. Far from the hoopla in Athens, El Caudillo was in Spain...
...southern town of Mardin near the Syrian border, thousands of fans rioted during a soccer game, then fought off police and soldiers who tried to put down the melee. Nightclubbers at the Istanbul Hilton twisted to an Italian band; pub crawlers in the Ankara Palas Hotel leered at "Velvet Veronique," a stripteaser from Paris billed as "Queen of the Crazy Horse Saloon." Such was normalcy in Turkey, the U.S.'s firm NATO ally, but it scarcely concealed the country's troubles...
...Lucienne Salan had been an army nurse when he met her in Indo-China in 1938, and when in 1944 Salan finally joined the Free French, she became an army driver. La Bibiche (little doe), the soldiers called the frail woman with the thin legs, the long face, the velvet eyes. But she was harder than she looked, and as her husband moved up the army ladder, she supervised his schedule, his appointments, his travel (avoid airplanes), even his drinks (Scotch with plain water, in a chilled glass). General Lucienne, they now began to call...