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...Russians being panicked by their government and press? Of course not. Are they being urged to go underground and await the conqueror in terror? Of course not. The American press is playing right into the hands of the Communists by publishing such cravenness...
...turns to shelters. Almost everyone-man, woman and child-has an opinion. Those opinions differ wildly. Many feel that blast and fallout shelters are cowardly. "They would convert our people into a horde of rabbits, scurrying for warrens, where they would cower helplessly while waiting the coming of a conqueror," said Major General John B. Medaris (ret.), former chief of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency. Others believe that other moral values are at stake. Said Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath. president of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations: "It is the morality of men and affairs which challenges...
...Diamonds tells the story of Maciek Chelmicki, a young partisan who in the closing hours of The Second World War finds no victory in a Communist Poland. The incoming Communist bureaucracy smells as bad to him as the old one. In the Red Army he senses a new conqueror. The only affinity he feels is toward Szczuka, a toughened Communist leader whom he recognizes as a fellow activist and fighter...
...peculiar projectile came whooshing up and-splat! The gasbag fell into a crater. When the passengers came to their senses, they found themselves aboard the sort of crazy airship schoolboys have been sketching ever since Jules Verne produced those tomes of fantascience (Master of the World, Robur the Conqueror] that inspired this properly naive and lively little subteen special...
...masters of pottery, of glassware, of porcelain and jade, and of sculpture. By that year the head of the powerful state of Chin, which ruled in the west, had risen up against his neighbors and conquered the land that has borne the name of his state ever since. The conqueror styled himself Shih Huang-ti, the First Emperor -an appellation that required him to destroy the palaces, monuments and records of all previous emperors. The wholesale destruction had an ironically tonic effect. The Chinese had, as they were always prone to do, fallen victim of their own achievements...