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There is a new kind of pirate on the high seas-the radio buccaneer. His prey is a country with a state radio loaded with classical music, edifying lectures and a ban on commercials. All that is necessary is an old freighter equipped with a radio transmitter, a safe anchorage beyond the three-mile territorial limit, and a supply of jazz and popular records. Since there are invariably more lowbrows than highbrows in any given country, the pirate soon has an eager army of listeners, and a flock of sponsors eager to press money upon him for commercials...
...last year. A reporter for Le Figaro likened the present chaotic condition of the Vietnamese countryside to that which prevailed there during the eight terrible years of the IndoChinese War; government officials have fled their posts to the security of provincial towns, leaving isolated villages throughout the South prey to the guerrillas...
...water to live happily; the Boeing system contains 80 gal lons, weighing more than 600 Ibs. Pilgrim is sure that this prohibitive weight can be reduced drastically, but he has other problems besides. Algae are delicate; they sometimes sicken, turn yellow, and die. They may fall prey to bacteria and other microscopic enemies. They may poison themselves with their own wastes...
Querry, whose name suggests both a question and a prey, has gone in pursuit of his dead self to the ends of the earth. As an uninvited and anonymous guest, he comes to a leper hospital on a tributary of the Congo in what could be either the former French or Belgian Equatorial Africa. The river boat goes no farther, and symbolically, the road is never more than a week's repair ahead of the all-encompassing jungle...
...idealist is always prey to self compromise, dictatorial methods, and tactlessness. Archibald T. Davison, the reformer of American musical education, who died February 6, avoided these pitfalls, for he possessed shrewd but ever-tactful skill; a desire to lead men, not force them; and as well an uncompromising idealism...