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...Enemy. Rather than suffer the indignities of equality, thousands of Boers packed their belongings into ox wagons and trekked out of the Cape Colony toward the unknown lands beyond the Drakensberg Mountains. They called themselves voortrekkers, and their journey was long and perilous. To cross the mountain passes, they often had to dismantle the wagons and carry them piece by piece. And in escaping from the British, they ran into a new enemy: the Bantu...
...days, Dr. Phillips plied the child with weird substances, including massive doses of desiccated ox bile and extract of beef eye. Four months later, Linda was dead of cancer. When Dr. Phillips submitted a bill for $739, the Eppings charged him with grand theft by false pretenses. Appalled at what he viewed as the first recorded "murder by words," the prosecutor switched the grand-theft charge to murder on the ground that Phillips caused a death while committing a felony (defrauding the Eppings). After a three-week trial, the jury convicted the doctor of second-degree murder...
...China. And for all the chairman's hopeful proddings, the scholars without exception described as unrealistic Fulbright's contention that the U.S. and Red China should agree to "neutralize" Southeast Asia. Samuel B. Griffith, a retired Marine Corps brigadier general and old China hand who holds an Ox ford University doctorate in Chinese military history and translated Mao Tse-tung's key treatise On Guerrilla Warfare, bluntly told the committee: "I don't think the Chinese would place any credibility whatever in any treaty we might sign. We are the demon in Chinese eyes as much...
Authentic Dialect. Just 50 miles from Tat Phnom last week, a squad of Thai cops, returning from patrol with two Communist prisoners, was ambushed on an ox trail and forced to dive for cover while the prisoners were permanently silenced by their comrades' bullets. Red terrorists also hit nearby Ubon, where U.S. fighter-bombers operating from that provincial capital mount almost daily strikes against North Viet Nam. In the past six months, Communist assassins have killed some 40 village headmen, teachers and "police informers" in the six Northeast provinces. With steadily growing intensity, armed bands of guerrillas shoot...
...adventure of sorts in the simple business of walking down stairs or directing traffic in darkened streets. Adventurers are driven to figure out ever new, ever more outlandish forms of excitement, from using jet engines to shoot up, not down, the wicked rapids of the Colorado River, to musk-ox wrangling. The latter was said to be impossible since the musk ox is a strong, quick animal with a very short temper. But John Teal, a Harvard man who did graduate work in anthropology and geography at Yale, captured 67 musk oxen on Nunivak Island in the Bering Sea, mostly...