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...fishing village. So the priest called all parties together for a raffle, and the united effort yielded 70,000 lire. Then dissension began. The Communists and the Christian Democrats each wanted sole credit for restoring the people's clock. They battled each other step by step through a fog of imprecations and Marxian dialectic until, via interminable compromises, the clock was eventually restored...
...fog has held off. Every day the small Nationalist air force (30 B-25s, P-51s and Mosquitoes) roars from the blacktopped airstrip at Haikow across Hainan Strait to the mainland. With field glasses from the roof of Haikow's Presbyterian Hospital, their bombs can be seen exploding on Luichow Peninsula where the Reds have been massing. The flyers also drop leaflets that urge Luichow fishermen, whose boats the Reds must commandeer, to sail away and avoid destruction rather than become "running dogs of Soviet Russia...
...golf course Samuel Jackson Snead, 37, professes to be afraid of three things: lightning, a downhill putt and Ben Hogan. Last week, as he slouched on to the first tee in the playoff of the $15,000 Los Angeles Open, there was' no lightning-just fog and Ben Hogan...
...week's end, the Orsi foundry announced that it would reopen with 80 workers, including all 30 of the ousted Communists. Everybody realized that, for the moment at least, Communist Galavotti had won the battle in the fog...
Around the machines drifts a dense fog of mathematics, a sort of intellectual tear gas to discomfort the nonmathematical. The machines speak and understand a special language of numbers. These are not "decimal," as ordinary numbers are, built on a base of ten with digits running from 0 to 9. They are "binary" numbers with a base of two, and have only two digits: 0 and 1. In this style of arithmetic, 0 is 0; 1 is i. But 2 is written...