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There is a time to read Ecclesiastes When you are full-grown young. So swollen with joy, so mad-sad, And all so safely so As in a play- Yourself to enjoy at one remove. There is a time again When you are beginning to be old. Ecclesiastes opens the hole in the wind Through which, soon, you will walk forever...
...Harlem's Fountain Spring Baptist Church, and a veteran agitator, launched into a 20-minute call for action, exhorting everyone to march on the local police precinct station to present their "demands." "Let's go! Let's do it now!" cried his listeners, and the mob, swollen by now into a howling tide, headed for the station house...
Trimming the Bureaucracy. Post-Stalin liberalism in the bloc is bringing self-criticism and some slow improvement. The Czech government is turning back to private ownership in such small enterprises as tailor shops, laundries and hat-check concessions. To provide more laborers, it is also trimming a bureaucracy swollen to 750,000 unproductive clerks and minor officials. To get hard currency for grain and machinery imports, it is wooing Western tourists with film and jazz festivals and easy visas. Last week, in one of the biggest policy decisions so far, State Planning Commission Chairman Oldrich Cernik announced that factories that...
...after Wagner's beefed-up subway force went on duty, a Negro pulled a knife and slashed it across the face of Cab Driver Henry Feist, 64, as he rode a Brooklyn train. The man was arrested and held on assault charges. But Nick Philippides, his face still swollen and battered, now spoke for a whole city when he said: "Of course I'll have to take the subway. I have no car, and I have to work for a living. But I'll be afraid...
...Atheistic Unitarians." Nowhere is the struggle more bitter than in the swollen Magnolia School District of Anaheim, Calif., where the population has soared from 10,000 to 115,000 in a decade. In an atmosphere of raging partisan politics that has pitted Birchites and conservatives against anti-Birchites and liberals, the five-member school board has become an ideological football kicked back and forth by all sides...