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...Protests are mounting on the entire planet against the U.S. court's disgraceful sentencing of Johnny Harris on a fabricated charge," declared Tass. According to the Soviet news agency, a peasant from the South Russian region of Krasnodar described Harris' fate as "tantamount to a lynching!" As for the president of Outer Mongolian State University, he concluded that the Harris case proves American justice "is not worth a rap." From the frozen taiga of Siberian Yakutia came the informed opinion of Farm Worker I. Volkov that Harris' trial was "a gross violation of the Helsinki agreement." According...
Some insist that climbing brings man closer to God. Jerome is not sure. But he does believe that mountains help man to appreciate both his planet and himself. "Gradient is the elixir of youth," declares a geologist, and he may be right. Flatlands, worn down to sea level by gravity and the forces of time, are old, almost senile. Mountains, no matter how ancient, are new and dynamic. No one can spend much time with them - or with Jerome's high-minded volume - without feeling the same...
...Planet earth is signaling its presence to outer space with I Love Lucy and Tonight? You've gotta be kidding. When outer space sends its answer, we'd better be ready to duck...
...each other into swimming pools. But the Dulles family had something of the same proprietary interest in the world and the power that runs it. From the State Department, John Foster Dulles presided over the cold war and the nation's other dealings with the rest of the planet. His sister Eleanor was in charge of the State Department's crucial Berlin desk. Allen Dulles, head of the Central Intelligence Agency, controlled a shadow kingdom that raised private armies, deposed Presidents, bribed Kings and generally kept track of the world. The Soviet writer Ilya Ehrenburg once called Allen...
Such a ritual transfer of the championship can touch deep, unarticulated feelings. If men dread death, they also look nervously behind them as they age to see what younger people are hurrying up to replace them, not only on the job but on the planet. The passing of champions can be cathartic; it is part of the large, primitive theatrics that sports perform...