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Three weeks after the Communist evacuation, Kalgan was still without electric lights, telephones, running water. The railyards were a graveyard of charred trains and dynamited workers' dormitories. On one street they named "Liberation," the retreating Communists set fire to the post office. Across the way, they reduced the telephone exchange (servicing 4,000 lines) to a pile of splintered glass and twisted wire. In the city's outskirts, they did a first-class wrecker job on a power plant. Besides crippling communications, the Reds wrecked 52 Kalgan factories (including flour, match, soap, and soy-bean sauce), depriving families...
...victory found Europe a Jewish graveyard, with the survivors almost unanimous in wanting only one thing--permission to enter Palestine. Prodded by world opinion and Jewish underground activity, the British were forced into joining with the United States last year in sending a commission to investigate and make recommendations for Palestine. The Commission turned up one conclusive fact: Palestine, rather than being too small, is capable of absorbing 100,000 refugees within one year, or 750,000 to 1,250,000 within a decade...
...fruit trees. He likes to look off east toward the Evangelical church, where, as a boy, during the interminable sermons, he traded jackknives behind the pews, and where rain, snow or shine the Kuesters still worship every Sunday. He likes to see the pine-and cedar-sheltered church graveyard, a tranquil reminder that the life which the earth gives must in the end return to the earth. There two generations of his neighbors and family are buried...
...succeeds, but not until there has been a deathbed scene, a graveyard watch, a near drowning. Stately Irish Cinemabeauty Maureen O'Hara, who recently has been required to do little more than look, bosomy in swashbuckling pictures, emotes heavily in chaste, flowing, decorous gowns...
...Louisiana in 1939, she was impressed by the old River Road between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Most of its once gracious plantation houses were boarded up or falling apart; most of their predominantly Creole, sugar-planting owners had moved on. But among the thronging revenants in this graveyard of a once graceful provincial culture, there were a few surviving residents. Novelist Keyes decided to report their struggle to survive...