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Boors may not always thrive under Communism, as Nikita Khrushchev so sadly learned-but boars do fine. So do bears, stags, hares, fallow deer, and every other Eastern European game species. As a result, scores of Western sportsmen last week were crossing the Iron Curtain for an annual shotgun wedding of East and West in which commissars pile up tourist dollars and jaded capitalist hunters bag big-game thrills...
Though the marriage of philosophies often has its rough moments-as it is sure to have in Britain-neocapitalism is not the result of a shotgun wedding. Right after World War II, many Western Europeans tended to associate socialism with reform and considered capitalism a dirty word. Then postwar free enterprise and the market economy demonstrated that they could raise the standard of living to an undreamed-of level of prosperity. The forces of the left, which had staked their political future on voter disillusionment with capitalism, were stymied...
...After I heard the first shot I rolled down the car window and looked back, just in time to see him (a Lafeyette County deputy) aim his shotgun and fire the second shot. Then I just said, 'OK Ford baby, show your stuff 'cause it's time for you and me to get out of here,' and I put the pedal on the floor. When I got over the county line I changed the tire that he had shot and then went back into the county...
...scares of the day become routine and serve as exciting tales for the evening while hungry freedom workers devour plates of butter beans and corn in the "living room" of the freedom house. Cleveland Sellers, SNCC staff workers, jokes with a vounteer, "What you need is someone to ride shotgun...
...scares of the day become routine and serve as exciting tales for the evening while hungry freedom workers devour plates of butter beans and corn in the "living room" of the freedom house. Cleveland Sellers, SNCC staff workers, jokes with a vounteer, "What you need is someone to ride shotgun...