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...socialist future, find the present dreary beyond measure. Lawyers and engineers, as well as clerks and workmen, talk seriously of emigrating to lands where opportunity is not muffled. Australia has received applications from 150,000. Well-to-do Englishmen are buying estates in Eire, where eggs and meat abound. In the House of Commons last week, Herbert Morrison's brain-truster, Mr. Gordon-Walker, complained that the BBC had broadcast a song...
...Dysentery laid many low. Dead were buried in graves blasted out of the volcanic rock. Loneliness also took its toll. Stories abound about the way men called the rocks by name and greeted goats as friends...
Quickie strikes abound, and an Army officer recently complained that the holidaying Koreans had thought up a Fifth Freedom - freedom from work. Absentee ism can easily be overcome, but raw materials must come from the north (again, the 38th parallel...
...azure waters of the Pacific Ocean. It has an area of seventy miles . . . two well-equipped beer halls ... a population of 1,800 people, all Godfearing, self-respecting souls [who] pay their taxes promptly. . . . [Its] lambs graze on the carpets of wild violets with which the grazing areas abound, giving a distinctive and delicate flavor to the meat...
...seems odd that the French, whose history and literature so abound with freedom of expression as far as sex is concerned, should use sexual morality as the discriminatory basis for meting out punishment...