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...Nature. They cannot operate naturally or seek the pronouncements of Nature, if they allow the city to regulate the temperature of their air, make night a flimsy daylight with electricity and fill them with synthetic food. The city is like a tottering superstructure of tin and sticks and kite paper where the most anyone can do in a life-time is add another Christmas-tree bauble onto one of its projections. Below this shaky construction, what it rests on, is the solidity of earth and the natural elements, where the poet, the gypsies and the blacks stand...
...courts. Most of them left fairly soon, but a few were playing sets. Unfortunately they nearly all lost--to the wind. As usual, despite the fact that there was not the slightest breeze in the Yard, the plains collected constant buoyant gusts. We should have brought our kite...
...soft-voiced but strong-willed Premier Pibulsonggram came home from a state tour of Europe and the U.S. a year and a half ago full of the wonders of democracy. Expansively he urged his countrymen to erect themselves a Hyde Park for uninhibited soapbox oratory, offered them the kite-flying ground next to the royal palace. Going his new friend Dwight Eisenhower one better, Pibul instituted weekly press conferences, forced his hapless ministers to appear and answer rude reportorial questions about their carefree handling of public funds...
Once the spectator has caught the tail of Lindbergh's kite, he will hardly dare to let go-Director Wilder sees to that. He worries the last quiver of excitement from the facts-from the time Lindbergh fell asleep in mid-Atlantic, from the fishing boat he hailed ("Which way is Ireland?"), from the landfall at Ireland's Dingle Bay, less than three miles off course after 3,000 miles of flight by dead reckoning. And always there is the thrilling sight of the little plane as it flashes through the air as clean as a sword...
...CANCER RESEARCH VOLUNTEERS NEEDED. Then Dr. Richard H. Brooks spelled out his call for 25 prisoners to receive injections of human cancer cells in both arms, and concluded: "Anyone interested in volunteering for research on our yet most baffling problem of our age is requested to send a 'kite' to Warden Alvis." Kite is prison slang for a note, and last week Warden Ralph W. Alvis got 120 of them from convict-volunteers...