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Algiers has lived so intimately with violence that well-dressed women are accustomed to step daintily over the bodies of murdered Moslems with scarcely more than mild distaste. But the slaughter in the Rue d'Isly seemed unbelievable-for the dead this time were French middle-class civilians, shot down by French soldiers. Votive candles flickered where the demonstrators had fallen. A bloodstained raincoat and a pair of women's shoes were placed at the foot of a tree, flanked by bouquets of red carnations and white daisies. Bitterness remained: a hand-lettered sign read, "The real assassin...
...gave Edd ("Kookie") Byrnes and his pomade-raking pocket comb to the world. Millions of acned teen-agers fell for Kookie's hackneyed charms, and the hot-rod set became ABC's own. The next Treyz triumph was The Untouchables, which set a new vogue for group slaughter, made Eliot Ness a household name among the postwar young marrieds. The cult of the lowest common denominator had found its high priest in Ollie Treyz, and with an almost evangelical zeal he went on to schedule such landmarks of mediocrity as Hawaiian Eye, Bourbon Street Beat, Surfside...
...Fran-çaise! was answered by the shrill Moslem incantation of "Yn! Yu! Yu!" Oran, a city facing the sea but turned inward on itself like a snail, was once called "the capital of boredom." Now its 400,000 people (half European, half Moslem) were bored only with mutual slaughter. The Oran prefect was hiding at the center of a labyrinth of locked doors and guarded hallways; the entire civil administration of Algiers has fled 40 miles away to an armed camp at Rocher Noir...
Most German sportsmen would trade a boatload of Belchen for a single Auerhahn (European grouse), a bird so wily that one stuffed carcass is often all a man can show for a lifetime of shooting (TIME, April 28). The duckbilled, chicken-bodied coots that the gunmen slaughter in their annual Belchenjagd (Belchen hunt) are worthless as trophies, and dead birds are usually given to the nearest garbage collector. Some hunters claim that a Belchen is edible-if it is marinated for two weeks in buttermilk and roasted with chestnuts...
...Form. Indignant bird fanciers conjure up new plans each year for halting the Belchenschlacht (Belchen slaughter) that stretches from November through February. But each year the hunters return. When Swiss and German S.P.C.A. members staged a protest meeting, angry hunters bombarded them with birdshot. So far, the hapless Belchen's only hope is fog. On both the Swiss and German sides of Lake Constance, Belchen hunting in the fog is prohibited: a stray shot might nick a hunter, and this would be considered bad form, even for a Belchenjagd...