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After a month's tour of the U.S., Liberia's popular, Bible-quoting 18th President, William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman, 58, sailed from Manhattan for Haiti. From there he will proceed to Jamaica before heading home for West Africa. While in the U.S., he picked up nine honorary degrees, was a White House guest of President Eisenhower, highlighted his visit with a foray into Georgia, the homeland of his ancestors. In Atlanta, he was welcomed by the city's white mayor but failed to meet the man who had invited him to the state, Governor Herman Talmadge...
...there, all right, and has been since recorded history. Noah caulked his Ark "within and without with pitch" taken from bitumen springs in the Tigris and Euphrates Valley. Just a few hundred yards from where Nebuchadnezzar, "full of fury," cast Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego into the fiery, oil-fed furnace, Iraq Petroleum (then called Turkish Petroleum) in 1927 blew in its first well with a gush that could not be controlled for three days. Iraq's proven reserve (7.5 billion barrels in the Kirkuk field alone) is within respectable distance of the great Kuwait and Saudi Arabian holdings...
...general human spectacle of brother murdering brother. But violent David King in his dream is King David clashing with Absalom; and scoffing, self-pitying Peter Able is Isaac being led to slaughter. Finally Corporal Adams, the responsible man seeking light and truth, sees David, Peter and himself as Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, all cast into the fiery furnace, all sharing-and surviving-a fearful ordeal...
Climax of their dream-allegories acted out on the straw-strewn altar steps is the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. Instead of Nebuchadnezzar's fiery furnace "heated seven times more than it was wont to be heated," three of the modern heroes walk unscathed through atomic fury to discover that "to be strong beyond all action is the strength to have...
President William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman owns a steak tenderizer (imported from Manhattan's R. H. Macy) and a political machine (modeled on Manhattan's Tammany Hall). Both function smoothly. During his eight years of office, President Tubman has extended the vote to Liberia's women and the hinterland tribesmen, but he also got Liberia's constitution amended to permit the President to serve an unlimited number of four-year terms. Tubman's True Whig Party, representing the descendants of the 15,000 freed U.S. slaves who first settled the nation, has ruled over Liberia almost...