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...brilliant scholar, the skillful dialectician, the linguist whose translation of the Bible molded the German language, the man whose interior life shifted from sharp reason to demonic visions to irrational fervor-but nearly all are glossed over. With hardly a suggestion of the poet who wrote A Mighty Fortress Is Our God, John Osborne concentrates on the crude-voiced Luther whose notable preoccupation with bodily functions produced the line: "If I break wind in Wittenberg, they smell it in Rome...
...houses grow smaller and families larger, man's home is fast becoming his kiddies' castle. Already teen-agers have overrun the living room, kitchen and den, driving their parents into the last bastion of apartness-the fortress bedroom...
Most luxurious refinement of the fortress bedroom-especially in sunny climates-is the garden bathroom, which has one glass wall. For some degree of privacy, the garden or patio outside is surrounded by a wall or hedge, is usually accessible only through the bathroom. Thus, while shaving or showering, the occupant can sunbathe, sing with the birds and watch the grass grow. Says one dismayed Los Angeles matron: "Using a bathroom like that is like being caught out in the middle of a prairie...
...proclaim a cease-fire before the 14-power conference begins. It wants no repetition of the Diem Bien Phu disaster: the Geneva Conference in '54 started before the contending armies had agreed to cease fire, and the Communists took advantage of the lull to attack and surround the French fortress. The Russians have stepped up supply shipments to Northern Laos in the past few days, making the case-fire all the more important. And, since there is only light fighting at the present, despite rumors of a new rebel offensive, the cease-fire is still relatively easy to arrange. Another...
...even much of the U.S. press seemed to be getting set to report an invasion of Cuba, Miró Cardona and his Revolutionary Council insisted (as they have for months) that they have no plans for a massive, ramps-down landing on fortress Cuba, but contemplate many small infiltrations from outside and massive sabotage inside, which will in time signal a general uprising by Cubans against the Castro dictatorship. The rebels believe that a third of Castro's much ballyhooed, 200,000-man militia will shoot, one third will head for home, and another third will turn their guns...