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...plot is no heavy-weight. Country pastor's doctor says he has a year to live; country pastor has beautiful daughter who needs piano lessons in London; country pastor has no money, but takes brave anti-orthodox stand which costs him higher-paid job; wife steals needed money, he returns it; in grip of death, country pastor finds new meaning in life...
...heat of India's rousing hospitality for the two top leaders of Communism had not yet faded when Prime Minister Nehru stood before a mass meeting in southerly Trichur one day last week and delivered an icy assault. Communism is outmoded, said Nehru: "The brave and great revolutionary Communists have become great reactionaries...
...years ago. Then he was the hunted, a fugitive from the Nazis who had poured into Greece. Three young Greeks sheltered him, then carried him in a tiny caique away from Greece to safety. Now the officer is the hunter, and it is time to hunt down Greeks as brave and as passionate for freedom as those who saved his life. "Things have certainly changed," the officer sighs. He slaps a clip into his Sten gun and orders his men forward...
...time for divine services in the small Protestant church in Nicosia. Sir John Harding, a brave soldier and brilliant commander has fought two wars, led whole armies-including thousands of Cypriots who fought in British uniforms. But he dares not worship alone. A squad of British soldiers precedes him and examines the altar, the Bible, the pews and chancel for planted explosives. Harding arrives in a bulletproof sedan. Armored cars bristle outside as Sir John, Governor General of the Crown Colony of Cyprus is at his devotions...
Shelby is 18, a volunteer just out of a Virginia military prep school, and he arrives in England, assigned to an evacuation hospital, the most foul and fouled-up outfit in the U.S. Army. He is young, brave, idealistic, but his comrades beat all that out of him until one day, in France, he goes AWOL to fight with a rifle at the front. Thereupon he discovers he is not a courageous man. Instead of accepting this as a not unusual fact, young Shelby is full of shame. Before long, he is stealing penicillin to pay a tart...