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...afternoon, talking as we worked, but not stopping. Once in a while one of the men paused to spit on his hands, or to push the black mud off his hoe with his bare foot. We never wore our leather sandals while working. Sometimes we would hoe over an ant hill, and the small black ants would nibble at our feet...
...memebers of Dictator António de Oliveira Salazar's tame Parliament...
Schorer praised Tropic of Cancer for its energy, and its theme: "the value of life exists in the act of living." The book is a work of art written in the spirit of ant art, he said; the autobiographical "I" divests himself of all, in order to live, just as Miller the writer destroys literary convention in order to write...
Nagle & Co. hacked their way through the jungle. They avoided all trails for fear of being spotted and captured. Unwittingly, they spent their first night atop a jungle ant heap. "The ants had only one idea," says Nagle. "They were ferocious. They wanted to eat you alive." The second night was spent on a coffee-table-sized ledge leaning across a jungle river. Icy water sprayed Nagle all night, and leeches swarmed over him. One leech began crawling up Nagle's leg. "I knew I had to stop it," he said. "But I didn't dare move quickly...
Glorious Page. In Portugal itself, Strongman Antōnio de Oliveira Salazar, after 33 years in power, hangs on to office as strongly as he hangs on to empire. Despite tax boosts, the government is finding it almost impossible to finance its colonial wars, and Lisbon talks grandly of African reforms to speed the independence of its colonies-once "pacification" is complete. But after the loss of unimportant Fort St. John in Dahomey last week. Portugal talked bombastically of regaining the lost fort "by all means within reach." A semiofficial Lisbon newspaper cried that in burning the fort and fleeing...