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Triumph on Turtleback. Vicky, a refugee from Naziism, landed in Britain 21 years ago. He spoke no English, faced an even more formidable obstacle for a car toonist: he was baffled by British humor. By reading and rereading Alice in Wonderland, he rode (as one colleague says) to "his conquest of Fleet Street on the back of the Mock Turtle." In 1941, Alice-sized (5 ft. 3 in., 120 Ibs.) Vicky landed his first successful newspaper job with London's News Chronicle. After twelve years he quit because an editor refused to run one of his cartoons. Says Vicky...
...thought by a large number of Asians, particularly students, to be the only modern prophet. They were quick to follow the rising star of Communism rather than the slow path of religion . . . What would be Buddha's reaction to modern problems? . . . He spoke of salvation through the conquest of Dukha [poverty], really meaning the abolition of poverty. This happy state could be achieved by the personal conquest of evil. Here lies the difference between Communism and Buddhism. While one conquers with fear, the other conquers with love...
There is scant excuse for any child anywhere in the U.S. to contract diphtheria, let alone to die of it. Conquest of this disease is one of 20th century medicine's most clear-cut triumphs: it can be prevented by inoculation with diphtheria toxoid in the first few months of life, repeated when the child is about ten. Yet in Detroit last week, 72 diphtheria victims were confined in the city's Herman Kiefer Hospital; so far in 1956, Detroit has had 156 cases with five deaths, most of them in the last two months...
These boudoir conquests are succeeded by Napoleon's conquest of Egypt. (Rémi is one of a corps of French savants whom Napoleon takes along to bring civilization to the benighted Arabs.) Author McKenney handles battles with as much relish as bundling. The rout of the Mamelukes at the Pyramids is closely followed by the annihilation of the French fleet at Aboukir Bay, and Napoleon and his army of 25,000 settle down for their strange three-year sojourn in Egypt. The impact of the French Age of Enlightenment on the 12th century mentality of the fellahin gives...
...Today's "peace of mutual terror" based on nuclear weapons, and the unquenchable internal weaknesses within the Soviet orbit have changed the Soviet aim from world military conquest to desperate preservation of internal stability...