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...concentrated on the end of the slide. I kept my weight on the balls of my feet, my arms resting on my knees. Just before I got to the end of the slide I rolled a little forward, put my arms to my sides and kind of half dove...
...Janeiro, President Getulio Vargas ordered a tighter control over the Brazilian Confederation of Dove Fanciers. His decree: people who profess ideologies contrary to the legal regime are henceforth forbidden to raise carrier pigeons...
...Peronistas and independents. The proper way to deal with the anti-Peronistas is to "hit them" occasionally but not too often-"if you hit them every day, in the end they won't feel the blows any more." As for independents, "they are like the stool of the dove that smells neither bad nor good. Some leaders have lost what they had in an attempt to win independent opinion. Independents must be left alone-they cannot be led. They are the savages still permitted by civilization...
...more a blind, biological ferment than a self-conscious surge of nationalism. Africa is still a land of weirdness and surprise: of seven-foot giants like the Watussi, the world's champion high jumpers; dwarf antelopes no bigger than a terrier, and goliath beetles the size of a dove; Pygmy hunters with humplike buttocks, and the society of Leopardmen, whose ferocious devotees riutilate their victims with tiny knives that leave marks like a leopard's claws. Across Africa's unplowed ranges roam herds of big game, more numerous even than the buffalo that fed the North American...
...were such familiar faces as the Rev. Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury, Madame Sun Yatsen, Ilya Ehrenburg and Frédéric Joliot-Curie. But the congress needed a bigger new star than Sartre to revive public interest in its three-year-old slogans. Even a new Peace Dove by Picasso-soaring now, and plumper than the first one-and a street-sprinting exhibition by Czech Olympic Runner Emil Zatopek failed to draw crowds...