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Good Old Days. The 1,500,000 who obeyed the back-Frondizi order were the remnants of the massive Peronista labor movement. Perón built the movement by pampering the workers with inflationary wage boosts, and was overthrown before they reaped the economic ruin he had sown. Now pinched by Aramburu's austere battle to rebuild the damaged economy, the workers fondly recall the good old days, never dream of blaming Perón for the mess he left behind...
...line is the specialty of a 1,600-man F.L.N. commando led by a onetime laborer called "Colonel" Laskri Amara, who prowls the strip between the fence and the Tunisian border. Amara's men operate with insulated wire cutters, drive cattle in to set off the land mines sown along the line and frequently draw French troops away from a genuine breakthrough by first feinting an attack on the fence in a totally different location. By these means-and the simple expedient of sending many convoys south of Tebessa where the Morice line ends-the F.L.N., the French estimate...
...father. Gradually Theron learns or senses nearly everything that has poisoned the lives of his parents, and Home from the Hill becomes a sad record of innocent youth brutally awakened to the fears, hatreds and frustrations of adult life. Novelist Humphrey is honest: the seeds of tragedy having been sown early, the crop is tragic throughout. The Hunnicutt story ends in disaster and violence...
...duty for the Christmastide. Said a member of Hammarskjold's staff: "All these people clearly want to be identified with the U.N. and to play their part in this unique operation. One after another said: 'This is an army of peace.' And, by God, it has sown the seed of peace in their minds-even among newcomers...
...beauty, and Author Troyat has enough sympathetic characters to carry him through at least a dozen more novels. Troyat, in this volume, is writing of Frenchmen who were still supremely confident of the future; reading it is a little like watching an unsuspecting man walk into a pleasant field sown with land mines...