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Deep, drifting snow stopped the bus on which Bricklayer Carlo Soriano usually rode home from work in Borgo San Lorenzo. As Carlo braced himself for a long trudge homeward to the tiny Apennine village of Luco on that chill evening about 17 years ago, there was at least one individual in worse straits than he-a small mongrel dog marooned on a ledge beneath a bridge crossing the icy torrent of Le Cale. Crossing the bridge, Carlo heard the dog's whimpering, and clambered down to save it. From that moment on, Carlo and Fido, "the faithful "one," were...
...week over, the Arabs prepared for their homeward trip. Somehow the presence of the somber child had taken the edge off much of the quibbling produced by the cautious politics and flaring passions that surrounded the King himself. The little prince had indeed stolen the show. The proof, in a sense, lay in the two extra trunks bought in the U.S. by the Arabs, in which will be shipped the plastic toys and doodads that are gifts from American children...
...curfew on Kafr Kassim (pop. 2,000), an Arab village inside Israel. All the villagers who got the word complied. But those who worked in nearby Tel Aviv, or had walked across the fields for afternoon visits, knew nothing of the sudden order. As dusk fell, they strolled homeward-quarrymen with knapsacks slung over their shoulders, women in their long, embroidered Arab dresses carrying or leading their children. From behind a pile of rocks outside the village, border police fired, killing 48 men, women and children...
...looked so much like a critic that I have not wanted to finish my letter since." High comedy results from Wolfe's continual difficulties with he friends and relatives who considered hat he had behaved abominably in puting them in his books. After the publication of Look Homeward, Angel almost the entire population of Asheville, N.C. was eager to lynch the author. Wolfe and devoted Editor Perkins laboriously explained to one and all the writer's need to draw lis fictional people from experience. But when Perkins read the manuscript of No More Rivers, he too was outraged...
...true, not true," muttered Otto Nuschke. He picked up his cane and stumped out of the hall. Earlier, Johannes Dieckmann had sped homeward in his black Russian Zis limousine...