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With that one-liner, a new young folk singer named Biff Rose begins his lead-in to a song extolling Salinger's conquer or, George Murphy, the actor-hoofer who is now the junior Senator from California. He then goes on to recite a poem about the days of the whaling ships, supplying the sound of the anchors schlurping up from the bottom and the howls of storms at sea. His hero, Captain Medford, was a big man in New Bedford, he explains, in an era when there were 700 whaling ships "and only about 200 whales...
...dying fast, and Latin American women are determined to lay down a few rules of their own. "We know," says Colombia's Señora de Uribe, "that we have something else to offer than men-namely, the human element, more compassion. And with this, we will conquer society which for years has kept us submissive...
...install some kind of military or political bases more strongly in the highlands, in default of being able to do so in the lowlands? At any rate, it would be a hoax equivalent to the "Buddhist" hoax-and one which can only help those who want to "divide and conquer" us, from wherever they come-if the world swallowed the line now being peddled by the American press to the effect that a "traditional hatred" exists between the Vietnamese of the highlands and those of the lowlands...
...matter how difficult it is, this above all else is the great horizon toward which we march united." >"Let's keep a smile on our face, let's keep faith in our heart, let's keep hope in our vision, let's move on to conquer unknown frontiers." > "I have traveled around the world and I have been in many countries and I have seen the glories of art and architecture. But the most beautiful vision that these eyes ever beheld was that American flag in a foreign land...
...install some kind of military or political bases more strongly in the highlands, in default of being able to do so in the lowlands? At any rate, it would be a hoax equivalent to the "Buddhist" hoax-and one which can only help those who want to "divide and conquer" us,from wherever they come-if the world swallowed the line now being peddled by the American press to the effect that a "traditional hatred" exists between the Vietnamese of the highlands and those of the lowlands. Those who would "teach" us how to treat our "minorities" would do better...