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...clatter bicycles, on foot and upon the backs of coolies and stronger relatives. The government had spent $2,000,000 and many months of careful planning on safe roads, pontoon bridges and DDT. They also mustered 40,000 troops, police, Boy Scouts and volunteer workers to insure that no harm should come to the faithful. But when the holy men and the first procession headed back from the confluence, they were confronted by tens of thousands of other pilgrims, surging in joy to the waters. The holy men, ascetic but arrogant Nagas, wielded their ancient maces, spears and tridents...
...Next day the three castaways thumbed a ride in a passing launch (full of tourists) and were taken to Butiaba, on the shore of Lake Albert. The Hemingways climbed into another plane-which not only crashed but burned on the takeoff. Again they escaped serious harm: Hemingway got out with a cut head, his wife with two cracked ribs. This week, after cautious traveling by automobile, they settled down for a bit of rest in the town of Entebbe, in Uganda. "I feel wonderful," cried Hemingway, clutching a stalk of bananas and a bottle of gin. "I think [my luck...
Super Force. But of all the mistakes the historians have made, "it is the stress on the capitalist spirit that has, I think, done the most harm." From being merely a phrase, "it has become an impersonal, superhuman force." The historians talk about "the inevitable decomposition of capitalist society." This has "introduced a new mysticism into the recounting of plain facts. Things happen because capitalism requires them to happen-even, it may be added, to an end not yet reached." Concludes Ashton: "I do not want to see history written as though its function were to simply exhibit the gradualness...
...been a Communist after March 1951, but would not say that he had been one before. Last week, to the evident surprise of the hunter, Furry doubled back on the trail. He had made the discovery, he said, that continued reliance on the Fifth Amendment would "bring undue harm to me and to the great institution with which I am connected...
...they should be quite obvious to anyone who has read our editorials during the past two years. But we have learned from careful observation that McCarthy thrives on defiance. The unstated name, the hinted activity are all magnified by his screaming denunciation into fantasies of subversion that do more harm than any truth Wendell Furry might relate. All that Furry has accomplished by his strategy is to make himself into a symbol of defiance; all of his courage has probably not even saved his former colleagues from similar grilling. By stating that there were five communists with...