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Some Said Die. South Bend, as well as Studebaker, has made a comeback with the Lark. Through most of 1958, the city and surrounding St. Joseph County constituted a "critical" unemployment area. As sales and production grew steadily smaller, the layoffs mounted, until by March barely 4,700 workers had jobs at the plant. Along with recession slowdowns at other big companies-Bendix Products Division, U.S. Rubber, Curtiss-Wright-the cutbacks pushed total county unemployment to a record 15,900-more than 16% of the labor force. Lines started forming on Lafayette Street for handouts of surplus Government beans, rice...
...Arnewi, a sweet-spirited tribe which lives by the rule of kindness. Their Queen Willatale, a woman of imposing gravity, gives Henderson a hint of the demon that drives him on. She tells him that he has the grun-tu-molani, in effect, the will to live rather than die, and to live more abundantly. In gratitude, Henderson proposes to rid the Arnewi of an infestation of frogs which, according to tribal superstition, is ruining the drinking water for their cattle. Henderson lobs a homemade bomb into the cistern, but Quixote-fashion, blows up the retaining wall as well...
...Must Die (French). The story of a modern Calvary; one of the most powerful religious movies in years...
...Must Die (French). The story of a modern Calvary; one of the most powerful religious movies in years...
...north. Without the skill of such masters as Turgenev and Chekhov, the Soviet writers are still modestly working in the same vein of common humanity and still echo the old wonder of life, as when an aged wanderer in Loaf Sugar sighs: "It's a pity to die, to go away from people's kindness. Ooh, what a pity it is! When I look at the forests, and the clear water, and the children and the grasses, I just haven't got the strength to die...