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Disdain for the Flesh. Until 1962, Krestova had been the ramshackle capital of the "Sons of Freedom," a fanatical sect of some 3,000 religious anarchists and a constant headache to the Canadian government. The Freedomites are part of a Russian nonconformist movement called the Doukhobors (literally "spirit wrestlers"), who...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Taming the Spirit Wrestlers | 2/11/1966 | See Source »

It had become axiomatic that Southern white men do not convict other Southern white men for racist murders. To fanatic white supremacists, the growing list of acquittals and mistrials signaled open season; they went on the hunt with bullets and dynamite. In at least 34 killings since 1960, only one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South: Turn in a Dark Road | 12/10/1965 | See Source »

The Ultimate Weapon. Meantime, in remote, malaria-ridden jungles and mountains, squinting down gunsights at their fanatic foe, General Johnson's alumni are proving their mettle. Draftees now comprise more than one-fifth of Army strength in Viet Nam, and account for one-third of the average 1,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Armed Forces: Renaissance in the Ranks | 12/10/1965 | See Source »

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "The Virtue Affair." Illya and Napoleon deal with a fanatic in France who is trying to perfect an insecticide bomb that would ruin wine. Color.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Broadway: Dec. 3, 1965 | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

Sir: What breed of white man, save a guilt-ridden fanatic from one of our 20th century churches, would actually choose black rule? Can you seriously imagine preferring to be outnumbered 16 to 1 by blacks in swimming pools, theaters and schools, preferring to live under some monstrously multicolored rag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 19, 1965 | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

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