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...station platform stood some 3,000 Argentines. As Ambassador Braden stepped off the train, they waved U.S. flags, shouted: "Viva Braden, viva U.S., viva liberty, democracy, elections!" Then the crowd swept up the hefty Ambassador, wafted his 300 Ibs. to a waiting Embassy car. Not until Braden had sped away, did the Buenos Aires police step in with their nightsticks, start cracking demonstrators' heads...
Sidney Franklin, 42, Brooklyn-born Mexican bullfighter of the '20s and never quite up to the Spanish big time, finally made it after nine years of virtual retirement. At Madrid's Plaza de Toros he ably dispatched two bulls, was hailed with shouts of "Viva America! Viva Truman...
...What was the feeling in the provincial towns when Caesar had crossed the Rubicon?" asked the examiner when Q came up for his viva. "Well, at first they hardly knew which way to turn," said Q hopefully. "That will do, Sir. Good morning," said the examiner. Q failed to get a "first" (equivalent to summa cum laude) but was given an Oxford lectureship, with Virgil and Aristophanes as his subjects ("I tried to communicate my delight in them rather than to discuss niceties of textual criticism...
...Ponce critic who did not flee to the Mexican Embassy was Alejandro Cordova, bald little Congressman and publisher of El Imparcial. One day Publisher Cordova was murdered by assassins. Last week Ponce held a closely supervised election to name, among others, a successor for Deputy Cordova. People shouting "Viva Arevalo!" were clapped in jail. Then the revolution broke out. Before he left for Mexico, General Ponce occupied Arevalo's former suite in the Mexican Embassy...
...Croft scoffer now, Tony looks with disdain at a "motor villa" he also owns. "Viva Tony," he shouts, "two more years da bulbs, you can have da joint...