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...name has been lost) who said that in 1753, after ten years of travels in the Amazonian wilds, he discovered a massive stone city of the sort built in Peru before the Spaniards came. Fawcett himself claimed that, on his next-to-last expedition, he had discovered an outpost of the city...
...souls to God"-proved too strong. He was ordained, and went to minister to the Tuareg, 900 miles south of Algiers. His parish covered 1,500,000 square miles of the Sahara. His parish house was a small mud hut in Tamanrasset, 400 miles from the nearest French outpost. His daily meal was a miserable date-and-barley stew. Within a year he translated the Gospels into Tamashek, the language of the Tuareg, writing with an ink made from charcoal and camel urine...
Even before the Communists agreed to exchange sick and wounded prisoners, one shrewd Chinese commander near Panmunjom hastened to prove himself a friend of the new Red "humanitarian" line. Early one foggy morning last week, U.S. marines on a western-front outpost heard a surprising announcement over an enemy loudspeaker: "Attention all officers and men. We have one of your wounded. Send two men as soon as possible . . . We will allow you to come as far as the defilade area without firing...
Through their binoculars, the men on the outpost hill spotted a lone figure, clad in long woolen underwear and brown sweater, lying in an old Korean graveyard in no man's land, only 350 yards from the neutral perimeter of Panmunjom. Cautiously, a squad of marines started toward him. Part way down the hill, a Puerto Rican marine recognized the wounded man as Pfc. Francisco Gonzalez Matias, 21, of San Sebastian, P.R. In Spanish, Gonzalez was asked if he could walk. Clutching a handkerchief in which was wrapped a rosary, the wounded man struggled to his feet, stumbled toward...
Like the entire publication, the fiction is varied and well-balanced. The scenes of the four stories are Paris, Southern California, the American South, and a Nazi outpost in Germany during the last war, and the styles of the writers are as varied as their settings. But the noteworthy thing about the fiction is that the story which takes place in Paris cannot be called a "Paris story," just as the one which occurs on the Gulf Coast is not a "Southern story" and the German one is not a "war story." The fiction takes flavor of language and character...