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...Laos, Dr. Thomas Dooley, 33, cofounder of MEDICO (Medical International Cooperation), issued a glowing report that the program is now rolling strong in ten countries: "Local governments put up the hospitals and we are simply the people who run them." Asked about recent criticism that he is a publicity seeker, Dr. Tom quoted from "an old Chinese proverb": "When one lift head above crowd, bound to receive rotten fruit." Then Tom Dooley entered a Manhattan hospital to continue his own personal fight against disease, got a complete checkup on his progress since removal of a chest cancer last summer...
...Samneua province, long a stronghold of the Communist rebels, the National Front candidate rolled up 16,000 votes to 13 for his pro-Red opponent. Another National Front office seeker was given a total of 18,189 votes while his two rivals respectively got eleven and four. Of course, the National Front candidates had certain advantages: anti-government districts had been gerrymandered to make their election easier, and proCommunists had been allowed to run only at the last minute, and were limited to nine candidates...
With that blunt inquiry, Bishop Pike inevitably dropped the problem at the doorstep of the nation's best-known Roman Catholic office seeker-Jack Kennedy. Dodging a personal opinion of the bishops' policy ("That's my business"), Kennedy burned at being put on the spot. Bishop Pike's question, said Kennedy, "should be directed to all public candidates and to all public men. Do they call up other candidates when the bishops of their faith make some kind of statement? I don't want to be called up every time the bishops and priests make...
Khrushchev himself had rarely bubbled so with glee. A half dozen times in the past year, he had hinted at, demanded and cajoled visitors for an invitation to the U.S., and now that he had it, he was a status-seeker who had got what he sought...
...most memorably monstrous character. An empty-souled aristocrat, Stavrogin longs to be a sort of Nietzschean superman. He instigates a band of young revolutionaries to murder, rapes his landlady's little daughter, finally commits suicide. In the hands of Camus, Stavrogin emerges as a modern man, a desperate seeker of God who does not know where to look. Says another character in The Possessed: "When he believes, he does not believe that he believes, and when he does not believe, he does not believe that he does not believe...