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What they saw behind a cluster of birches was a simple, one-story New England house painted barnred, a modest vegetable garden, and?100 yards and across a stream from the house?a little concrete cell with a skylight. The cell contains a fireplace, a long table with a typewriter, books and a filing cabinet. Here the pale man usually sits, sometimes writing quickly, other times throwing logs into the fire for hours and making long lists of words until he finds the right one. The writer is Jerome David Salinger, and almost all his fictional characters seem more real...
Even as the delegates began to stream in, word reached Belgrade of Russia's announcement that it intended to resume nuclear testing. The news struck the neutrals like a slap in the face. Hardly united and agreed on anything except their common animus against a big-power thermonuclear holocaust that would endanger them all, the neutralists at first greeted the news with grim silence. Only India's Nehru stated bleakly: "I am against nuclear tests anywhere...
...chat, even exchange foodstuffs and newspapers, if the Vopo guard feels indulgent. But anger remains. Sunny weekend weather brought a crowd of West Berlin youths to the border at Markgrafenstrasse. Some began throwing small paving stones at a Vopo water-cannon truck. The Vopos retaliated by firing a battering stream of water at the assailants-until a U.S. tank rumbled to the wall. The Vopo cannon's squirt quickly subsided into an embarrassed dribble...
...Jeeps rumbled slowly back and forth along the frontier, making certain that the Communists did not try to enforce their 100-meter rule. West Berliners remained free to travel the border streets as they pleased. Overhead, U.S. helicopters kept constant watch. Next day, when one water cannon fired a stream at a crowd of West Berliners, G.I.s of the 6th Infantry Regiment, who were also splattered, reached grimly for the tear gas grenades that they carried conveniently on their shoulder straps. The squirting stopped abruptly...
...pouring into Nevada "like a swarm of locusts." And Civil Defense Coordinator Keith Dwyer of California's Riverside County (pop. 306,191) last week told a group of officials and reserve policemen in the town of Beaumont that as many as 150,000 refugees from Los Angeles might stream into Beaumont if there were an enemy attack, and that all survival kits should include a pistol. "There's nothing in the Christian ethic," said Dwyer, "which denies one's right to protect oneself and one's family...