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...Memphramagog, or "Beautiful Waters" in Abenaki Indian--runs from Newport, Vt. north 32 miles through Georgeville to Magog, Que. It probably provides the main booster to the village economy, during the fishing season, when most of Hartford, Albany, and New York itself seem to invade with their dollars, low-slung cars, and fancy spinning reels. But these gents have long since retired to their Budwieser and television, leaving the village in an indolent euphoria which, every winter, seems to convince the 100 permanent inhabitants that the country life, even considering all the rigours of Quebec snow and cold, is best...
...girl with a submachine gun and a forage cap on her head. Grey with the fatigue of four days' ceaseless fighting, almost falling from exhaustion, they solemnly welcomed the foreigners: "We greet you in the name of the Hungarian Freedom Fighters!" Some carried machine-gun ammunition belts slung around their shoulders, and out of almost every pocket and above every inch of belt protruded hand grenades. Their striking resemblance to the classic revolutionaries of the Russian Revolution-which had occurred decades before most of them had been born-was not altogether accidental. Piped one 13-year-old veteran...
...chief point of interest in the village of Beit Safafa, in the bare hills of Jerusalem, is the 2-ft.-high coil of barbed wire snaking down the middle of its main street. On opposite sides of the barricade, rifle-slung Arab Legionnaires of Jordan and rifle-slung border guards of Israel enforce the division day and night in the name of their jealous sovereignties. One day last week, all Beit Safafa was excited by the wedding of two of its children-Fatma Bint, 20, and Moussa Ayasha, 23, a gardener at the Belgian consulate in Jerusalem...
...first place, the 5,000 crack troops combing out the 65 square miles of Cyprus' rugged Troodos Mountains were not quite sure what they were looking for. Intelligence officers had a dog-eared snapshot of a square-shouldered man wearing a beret and with a .45 automatic slung from his Sam Browne belt, and they said it was the likeness of 58-year-old Greek Colonel George Grivas. But was this actually the legendary Dighenis, the man who fought both Nazis and Communists, is now leading the Cypriot revolt against the British? And if so, was he really holed...
...detect the slight bump on a bull's forehead which shows that he may be a carrier. Sometimes X rays are used to look for the "crumpled" vertebrae that carriers sometimes have. Chief obstacle to cleaning the herds of carriers is the cattle fanciers' love of low-slung critters likely to carry the sinister gene...