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Politically, the U.S. found itself backing a brace of hopelessly ineffective right-wing leaders. After 1962, U.S. support grudgingly switched to Souvanna, who had previously been ignored if not excoriated for his neutralist views...
...Indian child who attends school with whites must brace himself for taunts: when it rains, he is told, "You must have done your dance." If he has a girl friend, he is asked: "How's your squaw?" Or it may be "Hey, Tonto, where's your horse?" and "What number is your teepee?" "Indian kids are shy, and can't take this," explains Gary Fife, 19, an Oklahoma Cherokee-Creek student at Northeastern State College...
VOLTAIRE by Theodore Besterman. 637 pages. Harcourf, Brace & World...
...settled the family in their country house outside London. He set up a relentless therapy schedule and organized relay teams of visitors to keep the patient's morale up. Pat's principal enemy was despair. Her career seemed shattered. Her right leg was bracketed in an unsightly brace, and her brain was as faint and blurry as a palimpsest. She fished in vain for the names of common objects. Even Peter Rabbit eluded...
...UNEXPECTED UNIVERSE by Loren Eiseley. 239 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...