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...have guests, this is an easy matter, for our own tastes are very simple. We both eat anything.' " Concluded Columnist Wright: "I felt that, despite Señora Franco's position as virtual 'Queen' of Spain, I had been visiting with any typical well-to-do American housewife...
...ethics. Like the Jews, he interpreted the First Commandment so strictly that Moslems were forbidden to make any kind of picture or "image," and the ban holds today. He forbade the use of alcohol, and the majority of Moslems have obeyed this prohibition through the centuries. (Today, most well-to-do Moslems who have social contact with Westerners do drink.) Mohammed sternly forbade sexual promiscuity, but for males this was greatly modified by permitting men to have as many as four wives, to divorce them at will, and to keep concubines in addition. In practice, most Moslems have one wife...
...economy, the Air Force was cut to the nub and concentrated on heavy bombers. Quesada, then head of the Tactical Air Command, fought a bitter and losing battle. When Tactical Air was abolished as a separate command in 1948, impulsive "Pete" Quesada put in for retirement. He was independently well-to-do and married to the daughter of wealthy Publisher Joseph Pulitzer of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. But the Air Force persuaded him to stay on to take charge of the Eniwetok atomic tests...
...pledge, Jeanne has just what the sorority wants: good looks, clothes, social poise, a well-to-do father, and a mother who was a Tri U herself and has never forgotten it. In the end, Jeanne, after seeing how Tri U snubs "social inferiors," is disenchanted enough to turn in her pledge pin and rush to the arms of a worthy young fellow (Dale Robertson) who, far from belonging to a fraternity, does not even own a tuxedo...
...straightforward observations of rural Spain as a child herding sheep on the arid plain of La Mancha, where Don Quixote started on his famous travels. At nine, Palencia's sketches of animals and lively peasant fiestas caught the eye of Don Rafael López Egoniz, a well-to-do Spanish engineer and art collector. He persuaded Benjamin's parents to let him take the youngster back to Madrid as his ward. There he set the boy to studying the great Spanish masters, but carefully kept him out of Madrid's traditionalist art schools. Later, he took...