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Brought back to the ruins of Los Angeles, Poole sees two women drawing water in a goatskin from a shallow well in front of the Philharmonic Auditorium. Near by stand the communal ovens. They are stoked with books brought by small boys from the remains of the Public Library. "In goes The Phenomenology of Spirit, out comes the corn bread...
...little way off in "what was once the Bilbmore Coffee Shop" a group of women are busily weaving on primitive looms. The Chief explains to Poole that "none of these vessels [as the Californians call the women] had a baby this season [in the communal mating] . . . When they're not producing monsters, they're sterile. What we're going to do for manpower, Belial only knows...
...declare that the TIME story did not express the community spirit of New York sufficiently. A surprising number of TIME-reading residents, however, sent in a quiet plug for their particular "dignified street in Flatbush," thus suggesting that, large as it is, New York City does have a communal spirit...
...event, the movement's leaders have now given concrete form to the earlier primitive mysticism. To boost their new party in the overcrowded upland states, they war on the ejido (communal land) politicos who often tyrannize the lives of the farmers; they promise the farmers absolute title to their little plots of ejido land. They also incite their fanatical followers to demonstrate against the smalltime grafting political bosses who rule many a village and town. In Leon, Tapachula and Oaxaca such demonstrations led to street fighting and the death of Sinarquistas. When, over the past 18 months, the Aleman...
Clean Sweep. In northern Galilee, where the Israelis were not opposed by Abdullah's Legion, they had swept out all Arab forces in "Operation Broom." Last week, in Palestine's oldest kibbutz (communal settlement) south of the Sea of Galilee, stood a fire-blackened Syrian tank, which the Jewish defenders had stopped with a homemade Molotov cocktail. A scorched trail led from the tank to the charred torso of an Arab tankman who had died trying to escape the flames...