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...independence for Guinea, making it the only African state to secede from De Gaulle's French Community. Petulantly, the departing French took everything-the telephones and electric-light sockets, typewriters, chairs, tables, even the government records-leaving Guinea (pop. 2,800,000) to start building a nation from scratch...
...Washington Irving's tale, Tom Walker, Yankee miser, accidentally kicks up a skull in the woods and is admonished by a guardian devil named Old Scratch. His wife loses body and soul to Old Scratch, but wily Tom sells his soul only, and for hard cash. "Lend the money," the devil suggests, "at 2% a month." "Egad," replies Tom, "I'll charge...
...disaster. His faith in religious faith is commendable but not compelling. It is difficult to tell whether he believes that better bomb shelters or more Roman Catholics are the hope of the world. On the flyleaf of Canticle for Leibowitz, Novelist Miller writes, "A dedication is only a scratch where it itches." Intellectually speaking, so is his book...
...monuments are all the more impressive because they are new. One of the secrets of Europe's success is that the war forced the Europeans to build a new production base and incorporate the latest U.S. advances. West Germany's Daimler-Benz had to rebuild almost from scratch, estimates that 80%-90% of its mammoth complex (1959 production: better than 260,000 units) is new since World War II. France's booming aluminum industry boasts that its technology is second to none. Italy's Pirelli tire and rubber company claims the same. Led by Germany...
...Scratch. In Alma, Ga., while eloquently orating at a Veterans Day celebration, Lieut. Governor Garland T. Byrd discovered that he was standing in the middle of an ant hill, and that thousands of ants were crawling up his trousers...