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...Castile," says British Author V. S. Pritchett, "is a landscape of hidden villages, suddenly come upon, like crocks of earthenware in the soil, crumbling in the summer heat, sodden in the torrential rains of winter; it is a place of sunsets in the haze of dust and of short twilights when the sky at the last moment goes green over the sharp, violet mountains, which seem to have been cut out by a knife . . . The landscape of Castile, Unamuno said, is for monotheism, not pantheism. God is a precise thing like a stone, the Christ is a real man bleeding...
...Giap laid down heavy 105-mm. and 75-mm. gunfire against the main perimeter. His gunners could not miss: the perimeter was less than 1,000 yards wide. For the first time in the battle, Giap brought up Russian rocket launchers ("Stalin Organs") and struck at Dienbienphu's sodden battlements-eight rockets per burst. De Castries checked the damage, then told GHQ: "This may finish...
...Crimson forward line suffered from its season-long inability to shoot. Center halfback Stacy Holmes came as close as anyone with a shot he took from the midfield stripe. It was a tremendous boot, even though the ball was as sodden as the field and weighed twice as much as usual...
...ball was sodden and heavy, despite the fact that six different balls were used, and only the foolhardy went out of their way to head...
...England, the Mirror's lusty coverage was countered by the usually sensational Daily Express, which omitted the report and wrote instead about "Our Sex-Sodden Newspapers." In Italy, most papers gave it only brief, rather bored play, or ignored it altogether. Sophisticated Paris simply yawned. Said Alfred Charles Kinsey, vacationing in California: "My next lecture...