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...with grace by Kim Stanley, grows in love only when she can decide his fault, which she so clearly sees, is extraneous to that love. She despairs when her father comes at last to see himself as he is, then agrees with her simple mother that the vanished hero dwelt only in the mind and let it be. These are two great women...
...slopes. Chagga legend has it that the great god Ruwa liberated mankind by smashing a vessel in which the first humans were imprisoned and scattering them over the mountainside. Actually, the 360,000 people of Chagga-land are a mixture of many tribes who for some five centuries have dwelt among Kilimanjaro's deep ravines and lived by their wits. Their wits have brought them far. Last week the European tourists who panted up the mountain behind studiously nonchalant guides found themselves in a country that is mostly Christian, and brims with more promise and progress than almost...
...chiefs and 21 planes. He rewrote the book of aerial combat, insisting on two-plane teams, dropping the first fire bombs on the inflammable architecture of the East, coaching his sky raiders to dive, squirt, pass and run. He lived on rice and red ants, coffee and cigarettes; he dwelt in mud and bamboo; he dressed in shorts and a billed, battered, nondescript cap. "Old Leatherface,'' the Chinese fondly called him, and guarded his precious store of gasoline...
...roving reporter. Before that, Announcer Cross sometimes had to ad-lib for as long as 35 minutes. "Frantically reaching for ideas," he recalls, "I once described the labyrinth of paths beneath the opera house, then the cellar under the stage where the technicians were located." Another time he "dwelt thoughtfully on the numbers on the railroad cars" in which each singer would travel on tour...
Worthy also dwelt at some length on the role of the "Street Committees" in China. Each of these groups, made up of eight or ten civic-minded citizens, is in charge of about 200 households. Through them, the government keeps track of the actions of the people...