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...arthritic arm up and down. "I ask the Lord to deliver our sister here from sugar in her blood," he cries. "Heavenly Lord, take the head noises away from this woman." Last week outside Harrisburg, Pa., an emaciated youth afflicted by polio and epilepsy rose unsteadily from his pallet after Roberts touched him on the first night of a 10-day crusade. "Oh, Jesus," moaned the crowd. "There he goes...
...September day in 1938, Papa David Solomon of NBC's Life Can Be Beautiful gave shelter in his secondhand bookstore to a teen-age slum girl named Chichi and put her to bed on a pallet in the rear of his shop. This week, 15 years later, Chichi is only about five years older and she is still camped in Papa David's back room...
...Reds put him into the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, which like Buchenwald was taken over from the Nazis; to this day the Reds still use both. For five years Hans Klose, along with 60,000 other prisoners in Sachsenhausen, slept on a wooden pallet 2-ft. wide (if one man in the row turned in discomfort, all had to turn). He lost his teeth and got tuberculosis. He was never tried, got no hearing, was charged with nothing. Then, on Jan. 27, 1950, the Russians abruptly told him that he was a free...
...monks and novices live in a long file of cubicles, each about four feet across and just long enough to accommodate a narrow, iron-hard sleeping pallet. They do not sleep in their own coffins (as legend says Trappists once did), but the mattresses are hard as a slab in a city morgue. The 60 men are gradually learning the manual labor necessary to run a big estate. At the moment, most of them are hopelessly inept. "The supposition," laments Father Gabriel, "is that Trappists are great agriculturists. But that isn't the case here. They...
...FAMILY ROMANCE (252 pp.)-Elizabeth Pallet-New Directions...