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...beautiful socialist society." Some farmers have committed suicide rather than submit. Many have slaughtered their livestock. The Erfurt Communist newspaper, Das Volk, recently reported 380 barn burnings in its district. And the most desperate have wrenched themselves away from their ancestral holdings and fled west, joining a refugee stream of about 400 a day. Said one farmer who fled last week to West Berlin with his family, after hearing that he was to be arrested: "I won't be a slave on my own land...
...Oxygen lungs have one great advantage: they recycle the diver's carbon dioxide through a purifier, let no bubbles escape to the surface. For this reason they are used by military frogmen, who would be betrayed by the telltale stream of bubbles from a compressed-air lung, which discharges spent breath into the water...
...President Eisenhower's jet took off from Ramey Air Force Base in Puerto Rico last week, it left a stream of political smoke behind. With Ike in the big, orange-trimmed plane for a friendly chat en route to Washington went Luis Ferré, 56, the millionaire industrialist, accomplished pianist and M.I.T. honor graduate who is running for Governor on the Statehood Republican Party ticket in the November elections. The trip got big Page One headlines in Puerto Rican newspapers, and Candidate Ferré beamed: "We talked as one Republican to another...
Amis has no notion that science fiction will one day comprise the main stream of literature, as some of its proselytizers seem to think. But he defends it vigorously as a popular art form, and, by way of illustrating its appeal, he cites the case of a science-fiction writer who wandered into a New Orleans bordello and found his work so highly favored by the staff that he was asked to be the guest of the establishment. Better writers may have won the Pulitzer Prize, but few have won this sort of recognition...
What Paule wants is to marry Roger, a pipe-smoking, frail-chasing, hairy-handed brute a few years her senior, who lacks only a trout to look like a Field & Stream ad. What she gets is a febrile few months with Simon, a delicate, beautiful and overmothered young man of 25. Neither fellow is of a sort likely to be encountered except in the lavender dells of a schoolgirl's fancy...