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...Struggle. The trail led into a heavily thicketed clump of jack pine. There at 4 o'clock they saw the bear ahead. Squires fired; he thought he heard the thud of his slugs striking flesh. The bear came on, and Ken Scott coolly took aim. At 50 ft. he fired three times, then stopped...
Then that tropical storm over the head-hunters' country in South America and the three-point landing on a clump of rocks in the jungle...
Seven foreign ministers, the largest number ever to attend a U.N. Security Council meeting, turned up in New York last week to debate the Suez crisis. Russia's bulky Dmitry Shepilov, jutting tall above his clump of Soviet assistants, moved about with a big smile and gladhand. Belgium's Paul Henri Spaak popped cherubically into place. The U.S.'s John Foster Dulles, arriving at the last moment, moved coldly past Shepilov to shake the hand of France's moon-faced Christian Pineau. For the instigators of the session, Great Britain and France, Britain's Selwyn...
...particularly like the battlefields in the fall," says Steele, "when the late afternoon light behind Seminary Ridge is smoky, and, standing near the clump of trees which mark the high-water point of the Confederacy, any fool can see Pickett's Division rolling forward. I know of no more moving spot in America than this...
...rainy season is over, and this week along the roads and trails and bicycle tracks of Northern Rhodesia, thousands of Africans are trudging through the bush to a clump of 20-odd huts called the village of Kasomo. They come from as far as 400 miles away to see and hear a plump, 32-year-old native woman and be baptized by her in the name of God-the black man's God. Her name is Lenshina Mulenga, and her magnetic hold on the people around Kasomo is confounding Christian missionaries there...