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There is nothing saccharine about Jane Wilson. Daughter of a farmer-civil engineer, she was raised in the cornfields of Iowa amongst sturdy Midwestern virtues as high as her eye. She went to a two-room schoolhouse with one room closed for lack of students. In high school and college bands she played the oboe and the bagpipe. From the State University of Iowa, she got a B.A. in art, an M.A. in oil painting, and a Phi Beta Kappa key. There, too, she married Composer John Gruen, now an art and music critic for the New York Herald Tribune...
...problems existing in San Cristobal and the neighboring villages are important and dramatic ones. Can progress be imposed on a community that senses no alternative to poverty, illiteracy and superstition? Can economic and social reform be achieved amongst people who have not yet articulated the need...
Actually, there are two Fine Old Families amongst cicada aristocracy in the U.S.; Brood II was first noted in Connecticut in 1724, fourteen hatches ago; Brood X was first recorded in 1715. This explains why gardeners, who don't know about the broods, will be puzzled to find another visitation this year, when the last-they remember distinctly-was only nine years ago in 1953. That was Brood X. To complicate things further, there are Southern branches of the cicada family that appear every 13 years, and in some unfortunate areas, the 17-and the 13-year tribes overlap...
...political comeback-and everyone thought he would make it. His campaign message was one of moderation on Alabama's most controversial question. "The Civil War is over!" Folsom orated. "Let us join the people together again. Let us furnish leadership for our colored people. You were raised amongst 'em. Go down in the black belt and the white folks talk more like the Negroes than the Negroes do. Their two colleges aren't even accredited. They've just got eight trade schools, and they want two more and they're entitled to them...
...shock Europeans to their senses. "What do you think would happen to you the day the Moslem community is no longer able to control its despair or its anger, the day it sweeps down on the European community? When you look each other in the eye, at home, amongst your families, do you not ask yourself what the world, what France is thinking? I demand that you disavow the murderers of children." The S.A.O. answered by machine-gunning seven more Algiers Moslems, and by sending a booby-trapped gasoline truck hurtling down onto the Casbah. Exploding just short...