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...violence was not all on one side. Moslem terrorists in Oran raped a French girl and cut her escort's throat. They killed a French prison guard, a Jewish taxi driver, a Moslem with pro-French sympathies, and tossed a grenade in a Constantine bar, wounding 16. F.L.N. men raided a factory and killed four Europeans, broke in on a wedding and mowed down four guests...
...chief end of man is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever." No Christian will quibble with that. One may, however, argue heatedly over, or reject totally, the basic assumption that the pop culture-bestsellers, TV shows, advice to the lovelorn columns, cartoons, comic strips, dialogues with taxi drivers-constitutes the best method for judging the drift and destiny of a civilization. No one judges Greece and Rome that way-there is no reason to believe that the hoi polloi in 5th century B.C. Athens knew any more about Euripides than an average TV watcher knows about...
...about Terry's sanity. His appeal to the National Labor Relations Board for reinstatement is a bureaucratic farce. With two children and a wife to support, Terry is in the bitterly ironic situation of being a worker without the right to work. He leaves town, starts driving a taxi, and crashes head-on into tragedy...
...Pudding hustled Miss Fonda and her press agent, Peggy Walters, into a waiting black Cadillac limousine; they were already too late for Miss Fonda's tour of the Loeb, and they didn't want to miss lunch. One airline passenger said to a taxi driver, "Miss Fonda? Where'd she go?" and the cabbie answered, "She just went out the door with some kids...
...changed ("I became interested in men when I was 13"). During her freshman year at Vassar, Brooke met Michael Thomas, a Yale sophomore whom she "loathed on sight." He wooed her persistently by effective intellectual maneuvers-"He'd sit as far away as possible from me in the taxi and read his term paper on Botticelli." In the summer of 1956, Brooke traveled with her family through Europe, met Mike in Paris and eloped with him two weeks later. "We didn't tell our families until September, by which time I was thoroughly pregnant." While Mike finished...