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Puerto Rico's nationalists may be few, but they mean to be obstreperous. Back in 1950, two of them tried to assassinate President Harry Truman at Blair House in Washington, and in the foray one nationalist and a Washington policeman were killed. At the same time, Nationalist Leader Pedro Albizú Campos led a revolt on the island itself that ended with 33 dead. Four years later, nationalists shot up the U.S. House of Representatives, wounding five Congressmen. Harvard-educated Albizú Campos and his chief lieutenants are serving long jail terms, and their movement now seems in decline...
...band finds food, but things begin to go strangely wrong. Their best hunter does not return from a foray. The two children are stolen. Finally, the Neanderthals discover their enemies. They are a tall, erect race of Homo sapiens, equipped with log boats, bows and arrows. In the blind struggle of mutual fear waged in the dark forests, the new men kill the last Neanderthal woman. The last dawn man crawls back to his cave and docilely assumes the burial posture, knees drawn to chest. At the edge of the cave can be seen the shapes of hyenas...
...columns that seem to melt in air'' are contemporary because they express the golden flowering of two comparable cultures (Western and Middle Eastern). In Western culture (which Spengler regards as entirely separate from Greco-Roman), Cecil John Rhodes's campaign to exploit Africa is made equivalent to Caesar's foray into Gaul. Both mark the start of expansionist drives that Spengter sees as the beginning of the culture's final decline...
...Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, by Krthur Kopit. A surrealistic foray into the no-man's land of Mornism. Barbara Harris is the sexiest sprout since Lolita...
Staebler, 56, still blushes at the memory of his only other foray as a political candidate. In 1934, he ran for alderman in Ann Arbor on the Socialist ticket-and was routed. "I took socialism seriously for a couple of years during the bottom of the Depression," says Staebler, who is a millionaire on the strength of family interests in lumber and coal and his own ventures into real estate. "I have since discovered it was a mistake...