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...wrong with that?" shouted Taylor's opponents in a stormy council meeting last week. "It is not fair to the lady," answered Taylor, "that she should be put in a position where she may be suspected of indoctrinating the children with whom she comes in contact." "Rubbish," said another councilman, but Taylor was warming to his work. "This is a free country," he cried, "and Dr. Broda can marry whom she likes [but] I have liberty to say what I feel the public have asked me to say . . . We don't like the way you have shown appreciation...
...Korea to find his wife Maureen, 23, turned Communist. He had resisted Communist brainwashing for eleven months, but she had been convinced by studying pamphlets mailed her from Russia after her husband's capture, including "photographs of tortured women" and "proof" of U.S. warmongering. Said the sergeant: "Rubbish! I know the Americans. I was with them. They hate war as much...
...before this idealistic concept was even close to fulfillment. During periods in the1800s, the city tripled its population every generation. In uptown areas "splendid squares and streets are opening on every side," but amid the slums of Five Points thousands of "wretched outcasts" slept in ragged piles amid "a rubbish of bones and dirt," and "swarms of . . . barefooted, unbreeched little tatterdemalions" ran the muddy lanes like animals. As late as 1890, thousands of children of Jewish and Bohemian immigrants were "working at cigarmaking or needlework as soon as their little fingers could master a detail"-or were living by "thievery...
...Then he entered the Mousterian period (of the Neanderthal men, stooped and beetle-browed). At 26 feet below the surface, he found the scattered bones of a child less than a year old who had died something like 70,000 years ago. The child had lain there while dirt, rubbish and broken utensils covered it deeper and deeper. The whole sweep of human development was enacted over its skull, culminating at last in modern technological man: Ralph Solecki of the Smithsonian...
...rescue, the admiral asks: "Still bitter?" And he gets the answer: "Sometimes I'm so bitter I could bitch up the works on purpose . . . Nobody supports this war . . . Why don't we pull out?" To this and other questions Brubaker gets simple answers: "That's rubbish, son, and you know it. All through history free men have had to fight the wrong war in the wrong place. But that's the one they're stuck with . . . Nobody ever knows why he gets the dirty job. But any society is held together by the efforts...