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...typical Fernandes performance, the kind that has lifted him to his position as prickliest political pundit in all Brazil. Starting out at 19 reporting for Rio de Janeiro's O Cruzeiro, he bounced from paper to magazine to paper, always making a success, always eventually quitting after a scrap with the boss...
...Command, made up of 600,000 South Koreans, 50,000 U.S. troops, and small detachments from Thailand and Turkey. There is still some bloodshed in the 2,000-yd.-wide demilitarized zone on either side of the line. In their ceaseless search for shell casings and scrap metal, South Korean civilians blunder into old but still murderous minefields. Red agents, trying to sneak south, are shot or captured by U.N. patrols. Last November North Korean soldiers raided an unalert U.S. post, lobbed in grenades and killed one G.I., wounded another. "There's glamour in South Viet Nam because...
...treaty, which would require a two-thirds approval by the Senate-and a test ban would certainly encounter some resistance there. Among the NATO allies, Germany undoubtedly would have deep doubts and reservations, and Charles de Gaulle would almost certainly act as if a U.S.British-Russian ban were a scrap of paper...
Because European businesses are so closemouthed about themselves, they do not publicly scrap for defense contracts. Most industries live more from civilian orders than from guns, but there are signs that some are beginning to count on government arms spending. The West German government's announcement last week that it will spend $800 million on speedy, new German-built tanks and tank destroyers will raise the amount of German industry dependent on defense contracts to 4% ; already the German aircraft industry, which employs 32,000 people, is 90% dependent on government spending...
...beguiling children and young shepherdesses. Sometimes-no one knows quite why-he dressed his plowmen and shepherdesses in costumes of the 18th century. But for the most part, Homer was faithful to what he saw-a boy and girl climbing over an old stile, a young girl seeking a scrap of shade, a lone woodsman affectionately stroking the bark of a tree, or a guide looking out over an empty lake. Three years after the Mountainville summer, Homer spent a summer in an English fishing village on the North Sea. There, for the first time, he began to see nature...