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...Bucket Brigades. The founder of ACCION is Joseph H. Blatchford, 29, an intense, athletic law graduate of the University of California at Berkeley. Convinced of the need for more U.S. good will and good works in Latin America, Blatchford swung into ACCION in 1960, six months before the Peace Corps got under way. Today the organization has 30 Americans and 30 Venezuelans working in 25 slums in Caracas, Maracaibo and other cities. Typically, they win slum dwellers' confidence by organizing volleyball or baseball teams, then build a recreation area and later divide the teams into bucket brigades to clean...
...years. In Every Man a Murderer, written in the late '30s, Von Doderer returns to the same time and place. His fatalistic thesis is plainly stated in the first lines: "Everyone's childhood is plumped down over his head like a bucket. The con tents of this bucket are at first unknown...
...bucket in this case is worn by Conrad Castiletz, an upper-middle-class Viennese businessman whose ordered life is shattered by the death of a woman he has never met. After a lonely, long-drawn adolescence, Conrad becomes an exceptionally promising young executive in a textile firm, and he marries the daughter of one of its owners. Then he sees a portrait of his wife's beautiful younger sister and hears the story of her apparent murder, eight years earlier, in a locked, private compartment of a Stuttgart-bound express. Several suspects were questioned, but no arrest had ever...
...jungle airstrip was hardly big enough, but a Colombian air force DC-4 touched down to unload a most unmilitary cargo: beds, trunks, dogs, chickens and 64 stony-faced peasants who had been strapped in the bucket seats. The peasants were homesteaders arriving at the outpost town of Florencia to start a new life in Colombia's rich but remote southwest. By sunset, the air force plane was back in Bogota, 240 miles away, with a load of hardwood...
When Historian A.J.P. Taylor kicked alive the fires of controversy three years ago by asserting that Hitler's prewar diplomatic aims were only those that any reasonable German statesman would have held for his country, a bucket brigade of his British colleagues rushed to douse the blaze. A. L. Rowse snapped that Taylor's book, The Origins of the Second World War, "is a whitewashing of Hitler." Terrible-tempered H. R. Trevor-Roper charged that Taylor "suppresses and arranges evidence." But the man with perhaps the best claim to speak about Hitler's aims and methods-Historian...