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...emergency funds," they argued that the planes -and the responsibility-belonged to the states of Iowa and Wisconsin. Iowa replied that the National Guard planes were on federally approved missions when the crashes occurred, thus making the Federal Government accountable. As the haggling continued, the two families settled into makeshift quarters -the McCarvilles in a 16-ft. by 14-ft. chicken coop and the Tjernagels in a rented house...
Along a dirt road outside Jaura is the Gandhian ashrama known as the Change of Heart Mission. Under a makeshift but colorful tent, we lunched on vegetables and rice served on plates of dried banyan leaves. There I met a former bandit whom Vinoba Bhave had persuaded to surrender. "Did you ever kill anyone?" I asked. "Naturally. I killed policemen," he answered. "How many?" "If I asked you how many pieces of bread you've eaten in the past two months, could you tell...
...efforts against the Japanese. One member of the team, John Emerson, recalls that Chou was a charming regular at the ersatz Saturday-night dances. "The orchestra was a strange combination of a violin and Chinese instruments, and the senior officials would shuffle around with their wives on a makeshift dance floor...
...brutality of suppression made heroes and martyrs of the wild-eyed I.R.A. troopers in their makeshift gray-green uniforms and slouch hats. Many of them refused to lay down arms even after partition in 1921. This established the Irish Free State in the South, and in the North left six counties of Ulster predominantly Protestant (see map) as an integral part of the United Kingdom, with its own Parliament at Stormont. First the gunmen fought against the Black and Tans, the hated English force that policed the last vestige of British rule in the early '20s, an era immortalized...
Still, the F.T.A. revue was fashioned as an alternative to Hope's, and others like his, and it offers plenty of pointed contrasts. Where Hope's show has glossy production numbers, Les Brown's band and a succession of sexy starlets, the F.T.A. has makeshift props and a small combo, and the performers determinedly hide their physical charms most of the time under jeans and baggy sweaters. More important, the Hope show clips along on brisk one-liners spiced with patriotic flourishes. The F.T.A. loosely mixes readings, songs and satirical skits to underline such inflammatory assertions...