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City of God. At dusk, in the Algiers suburb of Le Ruisseau, Moslem patrons in the Café de l'Espérance looked up from their mint tea and coffee as Europeans sped by. From one car, machine-gun bullets swept the oilcloth tables, from the other a hand grenade was lobbed into the doorway. Five Moslem men and a child died instantly; 26 others sprawled wounded among the tumbled chairs. Revenge-seeking Moslem crowds raged into the streets, stoning passing cars. Three autos were halted, their European drivers dragged out and beaten to death...
Carl Sandburg's Poems for Children (Caedmon). Poet Sandburg, in his keening, wonder-struck voice, reads a selection of the short poems that have fueled his public recitations for years. The quieter ones-Buffalo Dusk, Young Sea, Early Moon-are fused with a sense of mystery that any receptive child can feel...
...difficult not only because the Home Secretaryship (which he keeps) is a harshly demanding post, but because the Government's attitude toward the negotiations is still hopelessly undefined. Nothing that Harold Macmillan said at Brighton made it any clearer; he believed that "this is the dawn and not the dusk," that "our purpose is by evolution to create a new Commonwealth structure which will avoid the decline and fall which till now has been the fate of every empire." He implied that Britain was to balance itself neatly between Europe and the Commonwealth, a curious program that will complicate...
...DUSK was gathering over the Kremlin. "As I was walking back to the Congress Palace after the dinner recess the first day," cabled TIME'S veteran Moscow Correspondent Edmund Stevens, "I recognized a familiar figure in a long overcoat walking alone. He waved to me. I walked over and shook hands...
...early dusk at Trung Lap, U.S. Captain Edward Nidever, a West Pointer, was bent over a chess game. Comfortably dressed against the heat in shorts and sneakers, Nidever was about to move a pawn when the humid silence was broken by an outburst of rifle fire. "The Civil Guard's catching hell again," said Nidever as he slung an ammunition belt across a bare shoulder, grabbed a carbine and headed for the door...