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...year-old religious and cultural monument that stirred the world. It was the thought that the Abbey of Monte Cassino, a unique beacon of the spirit lit at the very onset of the Dark Ages, was being demolished by the military necessities of a civilization closer to the brink than any other has been since that earlier human crisis...
There is scarcely any food now and disease hovers on the brink of their other disasters. Some of Romanoglio's people have gone; they went to the safer south, trudging along the roads, carrying their mattresses on their heads, pushing baby carriages, cringing into the roadsides as great motor convoys passed. They were part of the 25,000 women and children who were directed by AMG to evacuate from towns in the path of war. Those of Romanoglio's people who remained are putting bricks into the shell holes of their homes, burying their dead, squealing and screaming...
Elements of Victory. All these actions were happily timed, for last week the inflationary forces which had pushed the U.S. to the brink were divided among themselves. Jimmy Byrnes had been shrewdly spreading the gospel that inflation benefits nobody-and his missionary work had finally brought results...
...Crossing. Peter told the driver to go ahead, and we rumbled up the slope and headed down the other side toward the Wadi Zigzau. Abruptly we came to the brink. Across the wadi machine guns were dueling with unexampled ferocity. Below, between two banks, perhaps 50 yards across, glinted water and broken pieces of ground. It looked like an infernal death trap to enter...
...Fitzgerald: "This proposal is a blow against inflation . . . here is what one union is willing to do to carry out the President's seven-point economic program." But the hard truth that Albert Fitzgerald's union overlooked is that the U.S. is already teetering on the brink of all-out inflation: the national income is already higher than the national capacity to produce consumer goods on top of its vast war production. Against that background there are only two kinds of pay increase that are really justifiable, by any standards except those of power politics: 1) those...