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...which as a nation is strictly a French creation. Before the French landed in 1830, to chastise the Dey of Algiers for slapping their consul's face with a fly-whisk, the place had been a granary for Rome, a causeway to Western conquest for the Arabs, a nest for Barbary pirates-but never a state or nation...
...women are free as the birds Who fly from one nest to a neighbour's When the cream in one cup turns to curds We seek a new field for our labours. We can lecture or flog a golf ball, We can drink with themenfolk in parity, Party politics we overhaul And, boy, how we organize charity...
Working under the supervision of a dean of labor, they bake the community's bread, man the local tavern (still bone dry), learn to turn out such dishes as chicken flakes in bird's nest, eggnog pie, toasted Brazil-nut pie and ginger biscuits. They weave bedspreads, napkins and tablecloths, produce a vast assortment of wooden furniture. Though no student graduates without a thorough grounding in the liberal arts. Berea regards its work program as an essential part of its education. Whether black or white, foreign or native, every boy or girl must put in at least...
...first, during the early, hectic organizing drives, they lived in Detroit's Knickerbocker Apartments, a nest of friendly, frenzied C.I.O. officials. "We hardly ever slept at all," Reuther remembers. Thugs once beat him up in his own apartment. Later he moved to the north side, where a gun blast fired by a would-be assassin ripped into his right arm. Reuther lost blood copiously but never lost consciousness. "I decided," he said later, "to fight harder than ever...
...Communist treatment of prisoners goes. They had been in solitary confinement from six months (Lieut. Cameron) to 26 months (Colonel Heller), but they were not otherwise physically abused. The food was a Chinese rice diet (with side dishes, said Colonel Heller, that "ranged from seaweed to bird's-nest"), but they did not go hungry. When they were moved from Mukden to Peking, in April, apparently in preparation for their release, there was a great improvement in the way they were treated...