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Bonner had promised to enforce the compulsory-education law and compel the unruly Sons to send their children to school. As opening day approached, indications grew that the Sons were getting set to defy Bonner and the "manmade" school law. Railway dynamitings and house-burnings, two favorite methods of Freedomite protest, broke out around their settlements in the mountainous Kootenay district. Several hundred Freedomites left their homes and set up a tent village at Perry Siding. None of their children showed up for classes when school opened. Instead, the parents stripped for their demonstration...
...Zionism, have been searching for a new source of inspiration. The intense Zionist ideology of heroic manual work in an atmosphere of collective equality looks to them more & more oldfashioned. The slogans have disappeared; their leaders have become government bureaucrats with American cars at their disposal; mailmen and railway clerks seem to be just as valuable to the state as "pioneers" who are willing to swelter in the Negev desert to grow tomatoes which could be more cheaply produced in Galilee. Said one young Israeli: "It seems as if Zionism was a sort of Benzedrine which isn't working...
...engineers' plan calls for huge irrigation and drainage projects for Burmese rivers, for hydroelectric plants, for railway and highway networks, for opening up undeveloped mineral wealth, and for building big, new port facilities. In addition, it includes the establishment of a number of new industries (basic chemicals, plastics, bamboo pulp and paper), and the modernization of others. All told, the projects call for the spending of $1.5 billion, two-thirds of which Burma's government thinks it can raise to lift the whole nation's productive capacity by 50% in a decade. The rest of the money...
...good word to say of the territory that lies on the opposite side of the river from their own, Irishmen from north and south of the Boyne frequently find reason to cross the border. By far the pleasantest way to make the trip is via the Great Northern Railway lines, whose engines snort with brisk Ulster efficiency from the lazy glens of Antrim past the Mountains of Mourne. G.N.R. trains cross the border between Northern Ireland and the south up to 50 times a day. Despite the anguished howls of a clergyman who shouted at its first...
Perched atop a hill 500 feet above the Austrian city of Salzburg (pop. 100,096), the Hohensalzburg Fortress looks for all the world like a candy castle in some fairy tale. A tiny railway scrambles to the top, and tourists flock to the terrace for a breath of mountain air and a view of the Salzburg valley below. Last week the tourists had an extra surprise in store for them. Oskar Kokoschka, one of the most furious individualists in modern art (TIME, July 12, 1948), had taken over the barracks of the old fortress for a summer art school...