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...Back to Leopoldville from a week-long tour of his native Katanga flew Premier Moise Tshombe. He had ceaselessly exhorted rural Africans to till the land and urban Africans to keep their hands out of the till, and had been cheered to the echo wherever he went. His most delicate mission, however, was to soothe the 4,000 grumbling ex-gendarmes who once served him admirably in the old secessionist days, and who had waited with forlorn fidelity in Angola during Tshombe's exile from the Congo. Now the troops were billeted uncomfortably in railroad boxcars at the mining...
...Pulses & Echoes. With Jimmy anesthetized, Dr. Passmore first rolled the left eyeball over in its socket and applied heat, to "glue" the retina in place so that it would not become detached during surgical manipulation. With an ultrasound device that worked from outside the eyeball, Dr. Bronson was able to get a rough idea where the object was, and Dr. Passmore proceeded to remove the useless, damaged lens from Jimmy's eye. Then Dr. Bronson took up the ultimate in delicate, ultrasound probes, smaller and finer than any dentist's drill. Its tip, about as thick...
...describes the painfulness of desire with lyrical agony, recalling his cry in the Sorrows of Priepus-- "All flesh is trouble." Such passages inevitably echo Lawrence. Yet Dahlberg can write in a subsequent passage of Lizzie's troubles with her bladder. One can hardly imagine Ursula or Lady Chatterley, or Lawrence's own mother in See and Lovers, with such an ailment...
Perhaps Senator Saltonstall most succinctly caught the tone of the evening when he rendered a variation on the ageless rhetorical device by introducing Goldwater as "the man who is not...." For the man who was to give a choice not an echo is now reduced to fighting with vague cries, against crime and for morality, his shibboleth being, "in your hearts you know I'm right." On almost any issue of substance the erstwhile challenger is on the defensive, his own words echoing uncomfortably around his ears. "I am," he must tell even his partisan audience, "not a warmonger...
...echo way back to F.D.R.'s fourth fireside chat, in October 1933, and also the title (On Our Way) of F.D.R.'s first book as President...