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...hard to imagine two plays in such contradiction. Lefty attributes to Communists a humane approach: "the man who got me food in '32 called me comrade. The one who picked me up where I bled--he called me comrade, too." On the other hand, Brecht's play warns that Communists who indulge in isolated acts of human kindness are actually working against the process by which the hated system must fall, and therefore must not submit to the temptation of short-range goodness...
Anti-Neocolonialism. There are plenty of errors to avoid. Ben Bella is finally tackling the problem of land reform, which he himself has often vowed is Algeria's most urgent goal. On a three-day tour of the barren, war-ravaged bled, he pledged redistribution of 3,750,000 acres of farm land that has been abandoned by departing Europeans. But the government so far has developed no agricultural policy or even devised a program for compensating European landowners. Around Setif, the peasants have simply appropriated many deserted farms; in other areas, local committees have taken them over. Rather...
Oldtime physicians who bled their patients for whatever ailed them, from "the vapors" to the gout, did more harm than good. But modern medicine has not forgotten the ancient practice. A pair of New Orleans researchers reported to the American Heart Association last week that repeated small bleedings have proved effective in relieving the agonizing tightness of angina pectoris and other symptoms of coronary disease-ironically, an uncommon problem in the days of leeching and venepuncture...
...sample. The normal range is 40% to 50%. Most of their heart-disease patients had readings of up to 56%. Patient after patient obtained relief from repeated angina attacks, which cause fierce pain in the chest and left arm, along with an alarming feeling of suffocation. After the doctors bled them, removing about one-third of a pint of blood, the hematocrit level dropped into the normal range...
...violent, four-day emotional bender that complicated the tense situation along the East-West barrier. What brought them to the boil was the death of 18-year-old Peter Fechter, shot while trying to cross the Wall. Many an East Berliner had died in similar efforts, but Fechter bled slowly to death in full view of a helpless, outraged crowd. Suddenly, all the pent-up frustrations exploded in an orgy of riots. After venting their anger on the detested East German border guards, rock-hurling, catcalling West Berliners battled their own police, stoned Russian soldiers, and shouted insults at harassed...