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That arid square, that fragment nipped off from hot Africa, soldered so crudely to inventive Europe...
...rootless can never be happy: "It was the kind of place where the houses stand cheek by jowl, all of them built twenty years ago, and parked beside each was a car that seemed more substantial than the house itself, as if this were a fragment of some nomadic culture. And it was a kind of spawning ground, a place for bearing and raising the young and for nothing else-for who would ever come back to Maple Dell...
...long list of "technical agreements" under which the two Germanys do more than $450 million in business each year. But the Bonn government, hypersensitive as ever on the matter of East German recognition, worried that another agreement with Walter Ulbricht's regime would only add one more fragment of legitimacy to his claim. Nor did it like the way East German newspapers and television were crowing about "three Germanys" and "the Free City of Berlin"-pet phrases of both Ulbricht and Nikita Khrushchev aimed at eroding Allied rights in Berlin. But whatever the Communists' motives, the holiday pass...
...just below the necktie knot, another in the back of the head, and either would have been fatal. But the autopsy indicated that the first bullet had struck Kennedy in the back, some six inches below the collar line, and that the throat wound had been made by a fragment of the last bullet, which literally exploded in Kennedy's head. Parkland doctors, who worked over Kennedy as he lay on his back, apparently missed the first wound. And it might not have been fatal. The bullet had penetrated but two or three inches, perhaps after ricocheting from part...
...churches seem to be finding solutions. Within the World Council, there is widespread debate about the need to forsake the traditional parish in favor of new forms of urban churchas-such as the "guild churches" of London, each of which ministers to a particular fragment of the city's population, or the Japanese cell churches that serve textile workers in Osaka and are run by ministers who also work as secretaries in the textile unions...