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...morning, starting from the supplier for the restaurant and the market where Margaret Kleinschmidt had bought her fish. Charles McWade, 43, a former Philadelphian who might have been shopping for fish on Tuesday, was found dead on a chicken farm near Toms River, N.J.; in his refrigerator was a remnant of nitrite-poisoned flounder. Without saying how much they knew or how they had learned it, Philadelphia and Camden health officials sounded the alarm...
...whose strange sounds seem to blend with the calls and cries of the jungle. Said Czech Philologist Cestmir Loukotka, who studied the tapes: "It is an entirely new language. The Xetás are a people apart, with a culture and ethnic consciousness of their own, a Stone Age remnant now unique in the world...
...Last Remnant. The Xetás are a dying people. Not more than 250 of them now survive. They live in bands of 15 to 25, moving camp every few days. They have no agriculture, know no metal, make no pottery. They sleep on the ground instead of in hammocks as most Brazilian primitives do. Their weapons are bows and arrows and stone axes. Their knives are sharp flakes of stone. They eat everything that they can find or kill in the jungle-fruit, insects, snakes, roots too fibrous for white men's stomachs. In times of plenty, they...
...liberation of God, the repersonalization of man, the judgment of a proud society and the quiet but more effective religious impulse unmoved by obsessive revivalizing. Such movement is likely to occur in the only way it ever has, within a creative minority and through-in the Biblical sense-the Remnant...
...first bases to be hit would signal the alarm. The U.S. would certainly be able to devastate the vitals of the Soviet Union with no more than 50 bombers. "Wars," as the U.S. Sixth Fleet's Vice Admiral Charles Randall ("Cat") Brown has said, "are won by remnant forces...