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Death after Sunset. In the unlighted, unpoliced locations and shantytowns, the native criminals who prey on the whites have their hideouts. They prey on the blacks as well. The respectable, hardworking majority are utterly at the mercy of the gangsters (the most notorious gang calls itself "the Russians"). No one dares go out at night. Black homes, like white homes, are barricaded. At dusk, crime begins. People are murdered in the streets, knifed, "chopped" with axes. Clothing is taken from the victims and the bodies are left for the night-soil removers to find. Though most black gangsters now carry...
...summer after summer is exposed to fire," said a Weyerhaeuser man last week, "and we've got to face it for 80 years before we can do any harvesting." Some small operators do not think that they can afford to wait; they cut their lands bare, leave them prey to erosion...
When the warm, water came in 1891 and again in 1925, it had disastrous effects on the guano birds. Millions migrated to southern Peru; finding few islands to roost on, they took to the dangerous land, where they fell prey to all sorts of land-based enemies...
...Easy Prey. The Navajos, already wretched in their poverty and disease (TIME, Nov. 3, 1947), were easy prey for peyote peddlers. The stuff offered them escape from their troubles. After a twinge of nausea (felt only by beginners), the peyote-chewer gets an otherworldly sensation of being in two parts. Then come visions and hallucinations, always involving bright colors and lights-"dreams in Technicolor." The medical aftereffects, still in dispute, apparently include impairment of the heart and kidneys...
Next on David's schedule of seduction comes Hazel, a puritanical priss who flirts with him "sanctimoniously, as a missionary flirts with her prey." Befuddled by the shot of Scripture in her sex potion, David is converted to marriage, and lives unhappily ever after-"a fitting and logical punishment," according to the publisher...