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Western observers noticed that the peasants were either very old or very young-the men and women between 17 and 33 had gone into hiding or were serving with the Viet Cong. Said a Vietnamese officer: "We hope they'll rejoin their families when they see that life in the strategic village is good.'' TIME Correspondent Jerry Rose asked a peasant volunteer if he preferred Ben Tuong to his former hamlet. He answered: "I had a nice home with a garden before." Why had he come here? "We were told to come by the chief...
...taken off after those natural targets, Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones. John Gordon, editor and crusty columnist of the Sunday Express, congratulated Prince Philip, when the Queen was about to give birth to Prince Andrew, "on being able at last to leave his bird shooting at Sandringham and rejoin his wife at this exciting moment of her life." Last January he announced acidly that "Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon leave for a holiday in the West Indies to recover from the strain of their almost workless year...
...poets have deliberately exiled themselves from the human race. If schoolteachers-who give most Americans their one and only experience of poetry-could be persuaded to ignore the 19th century with its artificial diction and clumsy constructions-and give their classes the poetry of today the human race could rejoin the poets...
...news and the great hope of postwar poetry in English lies in one crucial fact: a growing number of talented poets in this generation seem aware that readers outnumber poets, and seem willing to write something that might interest them. The poets apparently want to rejoin the human race. Nobody's stopping them...
...Second Thought. Obviously, this was the time for Adoula's central government to begin its crackdown, forcing Gizenga to drop his secession threats and rejoin the Congo. Out went an angry parliamentary demand for Gizenga to return to Leopoldville and take the Deputy Premier's seat he had abandoned last October. Some of Gizenga's own party followers in the Leopoldville Chamber of Deputies supported the resolution against him. Said one: "We have had enough of the anarchy and terror that reign in our province. If he does not return within 48 hours, we must take...