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...orders. The survivors, like men risen from the Inferno, recount horrors that, however familiar they may have become, still beggar the imagination with the terrible knowledge of what man can do to man. Those who lived draw word pictures of those who died: women whose wombs were injected with cement till they perished, naked men who were beaten bloody on the genitals, the beslimed piles of anonymous bodies in the gas chambers...
Many of the vignettes claw at the skin without reaching the heart. A few do both. There was the camp guard who became irritated at the sight of a little boy holding an apple. He swung the child against a cement wall and bashed out his brains. Then he contentedly munched the apple. The theater comes to be haunted with the screams of the tortured. The stench of death so invades the evening that the playgoer is often closer to choking than to crying...
...truth: "He was never as far right as people said. And he isn't going as far left as people suggest." After all, reasons House Minority Leader Jerry Ford, "I don't think it's a great mark of character to put your feet in cement and then stand there...
...Villagers built 1,600 new schoolrooms during the first half of 1966, well ahead of schedule. Peasants supplied labor, while lumber and cement came from AID and the Vietnamese government. Manning 6,400 hamlet schools are 7,200 teachers, including 3,400 who completed training in 1966. Hamlet schools can now provide elementary education for 540,000 youngsters. - Fighting disease are 42 free-world medical teams, including Cuban refugee doctors and medical personnel from 13 other nations; 153 American doctors took furloughs from their private practices for two-month voluntary stints with Project Viet Nam; West Germany has sent...
...snorkel through the gauzy wall of a capillary into a shocking-pink lung where the lightest breath hurls the homunculi about like twigs in a tornado. A bit later, the "foreign body" of Actress Welch is attacked with understandable enthusiasm by antibodies that look like jellyfish made of household cement...