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...District which, proclaimed the booming host, is God's country. Then, after a few cases of Scotch and bourbon to wash down the appetizers, there was the dinner itself-fresh shrimp, green turtle soup, Steak Rayburn (a double-cut smothered in mushrooms), a few hookers of brandy and fragrant Coronas...
...week the delicate green of winter wheat lighted loam-black fields. The last snow had melted. Fat sows, trailed by stiff-legged shoats, nosed through the early budding clover. Factory-bright tractors roared across the fields; loaded manure spreaders clumped and rumbled. The smell of freshly turned earth was fragrant in the air. It was spring in Tipton County, one of the fattest agricultural areas in the state, and things looked good...
Next day the village doctor came to visit Maria, followed by the village priest. Both came away tight-lipped and silent. Later Maria herself appeared in her garden. Pale and exhausted, she walked in the hot sunlight among the fragrant heavy grapevines and shining oleander bushes. She walked slowly, lost in meditation, as if she no longer knew where...
...Price of Civilization. Spring has come early and generously to Berlin this year; the sweet-scented lindens touch fragrant fingers to form graceful arches. But Berlin's people breathe the dust of ruins-ruins that have a kind of awful majesty. There is the burned, bombed hulk of the Reichstag with the crows napping foolishly around the beheaded statues on the roof, and the icy stench of a tomb breathing over its bricked-up entrances. A few blocks away along the Wilhelmstrasse, the granite walls of the battered Reichs-chancellery are plastered with neat, wheedling Communist posters: "Mothers...
Their prayer started traditionally enough: "We come with fragrant flowers and sweet wine to pray. . . ." Then came the political snapper: "No matter how American imperialism exerts itself, the children of the Yellow Emperor will unite under the Chinese Communist Party and . . . thoroughly exterminate all of Chiang Kai-shek's gangsters." They wished Huang Ti's posterity "10,000 years, 1,000 autumns...