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After their ordeal, in the heat and uncertainty of life at Guam's Tent City, most of the refugees were only exhausted and played out. Like refugees anywhere, they spent their time sleeping, lying on their bunks, wandering aimlessly around the deserted airstrip that is now the main street of Tent City, always waiting. On their release for the States, a process that takes at least four or five days, the Vietnamese are left on the roadside to wait for buses to their flights, families sharing lines of cots stacked like beach chairs, sitting for hours under the scorching...
...ideas have arisen, and things have changed. Practices at 5:30 a.m., workouts twice a day over spring vacation, and a year-round commitment have all blossomed into reality. Or, for some of the oarswomen, involved, it is a daily ordeal...
...eyes of a black sheep-symbolizing Tombalbaye-and bury it alive. The movement to oust Tombalbaye gained momentum last summer when, as part of an authenticity campaign called Chaditude, he ordered all high government officials, civil servants and military officers to undergo Yondo, a sometimes fatal initiation ritual. The ordeal, which Tombalbaye himself underwent as an adolescent, is known to involve flogging, facial scarring, drugging and mock burial (TIME...
Like most Hiroshimans, Shigeto is a pacifist. He believes that "the nobility of human spirit will surely prevent" another Hiroshima. "Isn't it strange," he says, "that the worst disaster in human history should have turned me into a helpless optimist?" Indeed, despite his city's ordeal, Shigeto has been so impressed by the strength and courage displayed by Hiroshima's victims that he has unbounded faith in man's prospects for survival. That feeling was bolstered recently when he learned that the first two victims he treated after the blast are still alive today...
Soul and Psyche. Other winners: in history, Bernard Bailyn's The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson, a study of the Royal Governor of Massachusetts on the eve of the American Revolution; in philosophy, Robert Nozick's Anarchy, State and Utopia, a disquisition upon just how and why that government is best which governs least. In poetry, Marilyn Hacker's Presentation Piece; in biography, Richard B. Sewall's The Life of Emily Dickinson; in children's books, Virginia Hamilton's M.C. Higgins, the Great, a story about growing up black in the Cumberland Mountains. Science...