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Gales boiled over the British Isles, at hurricane force in many areas. Fallen trees blocked many main roads. Bomb ruins crashed into bomb-weakened houses, and rescue squads went to work as they had in the nights of the blitz. At Shrewsbury a gust snatched a man and carried him to death in the Severn River. Mountainous waves rolled aside a sea wall in Hampshire and flooded many cottages...
Author Miller, who was in charge of churches in London's dockland area in 1938 and who survived the blitz as a pastor in the thoroughly bombed borough of Stepney, has no hesitancy about putting his left foot forward. Unlike the Church of England's famed "Red" Dean of Canterbury, however, he is careful to put it down on the platform of Karl Marx's social theory, rather than on the pit-strewn ground of Stalinist Russia...
Back home in Britain last week, the people were only slowly recovering from The Crisis. Some of the worst floods in history were wreaking havoc throughout the country. And at blitz-damaged Buckingham Palace 150 repairmen were holding a protest meeting in "disgust at being employed on such a site when the suffering of the working class through inadequate housing is deplorable." "Personally," Elizabeth told a South African M.P., "I feel rather guilty for being here enjoying myself when the people at home are suffering so." It was a statement worthy of a future Queen, not only because...
...Gallo), Cairo (Abdel Basset El Taher) and Shanghai (the three Wongs) are equally adept. Shaw, a small, taciturn, greying Englishman whose way with automobiles approaches genius, will be long remembered by the squads of photographers he maneuvered through London's blazing streets for vantage shots of the blitz. Gallo is a politically indispensable young man who has somehow made himself welcome at the headquarters of all of Brazil's political parties. Abdel, an Upper Egypt man with the Egyptians' fine feeling for humor and sense of the ridiculous, is master of the endless minutiae of publishing...
When a symphony orchestra tunes up, it traditionally takes A from the oboe. But the oboe's bleat is too feeble to be heard above a blitz of tuning. Its A, though the truest available, does not always sound the same. It may be affected by variations in the temperature, the humidity, the reed -or the oboe player...