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...heedless of boundary lines as rain in the lush jungles, revolution had swept Central America for nine months - not only in Salvador but in Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala. The military rulers who survived the revolutionary purge killed, tortured, imprisoned hundreds of men & women, drove thousands into exile. The people continued to fight back with guerrilla warfare, bombs, strikes, captured Lend-Lease equipment, pamphlets - and even an underground radio...
Meanwhile, heedless of the mystery, her devoted followers at the Temple mourned: "Bring her back, Lord. Make it not true...
Many a U.S. scientist last week grimly contrasted U.S. draft policy with those of Britain, Russia and Germany, which have taken care to keep their scientists where they can be most useful - in the laboratories. The heedless drafting of scientists, said they, would not only put a crimp in the U.S. war effort but place the nation at a serious disadvantage in postwar technology...
...gaudy blazers, tinkling tea cups, squeaking gramophones. On the other side, coaches, undergraduates, townsfolk and dogs flocked along the towpath -some on bicycle, some afoot - keeping abreast of their favorite boat. Coaches shouted through megaphones; others yelled, rattled rattles, tooted horns, fired blank cartridges. Many a cyclist in his heedless excitement pedaled over the towpath into the river...
...dangerous, so imminent that I do not think we should burn this bridge down because we are mad at somebody." Representative Wright Patman of Texas counseled: "Remember that in Russia milk costs $7 a half pint, butter $70 a pound, a suit of clothes $450." The House, heedless, swept on. After months of inaction the members wanted to seize this first clear chance to smash at the Administration. Anti-Administration Democrats and Republicans alike joined...