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...Barefoot Cops. During its first 100 years, Liberia has been bypassed by history. Macy's steak masticator is chomping away in a country which has no sewage system, no railroads, few wheels. Monrovia is a town whose policemen go barefoot and whose telephone poles are constantly devoured by insects. Until recently, Monrovia had no proper docking facilities; visitors were carried ashore in sedan-like contraptions called mammy-chairs...
...writing (see above) were interviewed by correspondents. Ernest Hemingway answered his questions by mail. He requested that both TIME's questions & his answers be published "since this has to do with my trade. You can say that when you saw me I was unshaven, needed a haircut, was barefoot, wearing a pyjama bottom and no top." The questions, and his replies...
Noakhali was the first place Gandhi visited last spring in his tour of India's riot areas. Barefoot, staff in hand, leaning on his grandniece Manu, he had padded through the water-soaked fields and the mixed Moslem-Hindu villages, preaching peace. Last week Gandhi planned a symbolic return. "My work is in Noakhali," he said. "Nobody will prevent me from going there." For Gandhi considered himself a citizen of both new Indian states. "I will go freely to all parts of India . . . without a passport." The question was, would other Indians be able to do the same...
...hears the muezzin (prayer-time announcer) calling to prayers just before sunrise: 'La ilaha, ilia Allah, Mohamed rasul Allah!' (There is but one God, and Mohamed is his prophet!). The Moslem washes himself-his whole body 'if he has been with his wife'-stands barefoot on a carpet and, facing Mecca, begins to pray in the manner of a man doing mild setting-up exercises. First he stands at attention and says: 'I am beginning to pray.' Then, putting his hands to his ears, he says: 'Allah is almighty, exalted be Allah...
...independence movement too. Fiery, 54-year-old Messali Hadj, Algerian Arab nationalist, toured the restless Kabylie district in March, repeated in village after village: "For 116 years we have been under the French yoke. Still we sleep on the ground, we wear only a simple gandourah, we walk barefoot, and most of us go three or four days without eating a piece of cake...