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...suffered one of the most traumatic experiences that could befall any boy-an experience which, according to some friends, was to affect him for the rest of his life. Among several guests in the Stevenson home one night was a military-school student who offered to perform the manual of arms. Excited, young Adlai ran to get a .22-cal. pump rifle, watched wide-eyed while the cadet went through the ritual. When it was over, Adlai took the rifle, began to mimic the performance. The weapon accidentally fired, killing Adlai's 15-year-old cousin, Ruth Mary Merwin...
...spidery span built by the same engineers who erected the Eiffel Tower. From their perch, they could see other batteries: 37-mm. cannon, machine guns, hand-held automatic rifles-all poking skyward from the taller buildings of the capital. In the streets below, grim-faced boys snapped through the manual of arms with wooden rifles while pretty girls in pantaloons hurled mock grenades through automobile tires, many of them scoring two hits out of three over 25 yds. Beyond the city, crews of workers put the last touches on more sophisticated armaments: the launch pads of Soviet-supplied...
...exquisite crystal in which the total experience of human being is reconstituted in radiance. At one level, La Commedia is a spiritual autobiography; at another, a parable of the progress of the soul; at a third, one of the noblest love stories ever told. Incidentally it is a manual of mysticism and an encyclopedia of Greek, Hebrew, Arabic and Scholastic learning. Fundamentally it is both a fearful reprise of Apocalypse and the gospel of a rising religion of individuality that still moves and shakes the Western world. And spiritually, because it so profoundly agitates the great continuing questions...
...many such men, fighting is a profession, not a training-manual exercise. They are in Viet Nam not because they have to be, but because they want to be -after all, that is where the fighting is. Thousands who could by now be back home are serving voluntary second and third tours of duty in Viet Nam. They have had hard going, but almost to a man they believe that the Vietnamese war can be won-if only their efforts are not undercut on the home front...
...calmer times, students were still required to take part in manual labor, though not at such a frantic pace. One of the six school days every week was spent in a local factory, doing some unskilled task. My class was set to work polishing shutter pieces for a local camera assembly plant...