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...beneath the transparent waters of the bay, with scattered debris and flakes of aluminum skin glinting on the tufts of marshland. The only signs of life were clouds of wheeling sea gulls, roused from a nearby bird sanctuary, and a dozen helicopters that whirled to the scene like a swarm of dragonflies...
...Republican legislators have introduced nearly 50 bills to provide bonuses for the state's 482,000 Korean-war veterans or their next of kin. Nine state veterans' organizations, among them the powerful Legion, are conducting a high-pressure campaign for bonus legislation, and overseas-capped veterans swarm through the Albany legislative halls urging passage. New York City's Mayor Robert Wagner, who may face Rockefeller in November's gubernatorial race, has backed the handout. Yet Rocky, who needs all the votes he can get in November, came before the legionnaires to oppose...
Working out his own definition, the cartoonist demanded that true humor must make a fresh observation about situations which really exist. American comedians have failed on both counts, having created a swarm of strereotyped, false figures without saying anything original about them. Now, the critical humorists of the late fifties he said (including himself) are also tempted to exploit the easy, tested laugh; "twenty years ago a comedian just had to say Brooklyn. Now it's Madison Avenue...
...Congress, raged Chakravarti Rajagopalachari. leader of the free-enterprise Swatantra Party, that "it is time for us to open our umbrellas to protect ourselves against the heavy drizzle of Congress maladministration." The party, "C.R." continued, is only Nehru's "donkey ... a band of bakasuras [mythological Hindu demons], a swarm of locusts, a band of tyrants." Retorted Nehru: "He is cursing for the sake of cursing." Lashing out against the Swatantra's threat to his doctrinaire brand of socialism, Nehru said: "Rajaji calls me a half Communist. If it helps India, I will not be a half Communist...
...post-Hitler German youth, Jews are almost as exotic as Javanese. Karl Marx,* editor of the Jewish weekly Allgemeine Wochenzeitung (circ. 48,000), reports that students swarm to him on his lecture tours, tell him in awe: "You are the first Jewish person we have ever met." In sharing the Germany of this new generation, some of Germany's Jews regard themselves as a reminder to Christians of the sins of the past, and as a continuing litmus paper for testing the country's democratic intentions. "There has not yet been any test of Germany's democracy...