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Show me the way in which a nation cares for its deceased and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender sympathies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land and their loyalty to high ideals...
...refugees started laying their plans last May. For a boat, they decided to expropriate an 85-ft. government lighthouse tender, the H-11, and quickly enlisted the aid of the captain. On the appointed night, while he sailed to the rendezvous, the escapees gathered in the southern swamps four miles inland near the Bay of Pigs, loaded food, water and clothing aboard two flatboats, then pushed off for the sea. Women and children rode on the boats; the men waded ahead, hacking a path through the man grove and bamboo thickets. It took five hours to get through the swamp...
...Imperial Valley. Over fields of flax reddened by a dawning sun, thousands upon thousands of mourning doves wheeled and circled, their whistling wings deepening the sense of speed. Below, Cattleman Virgil Torrance tightened his grip on a 12-gauge single-barreled shotgun. The doves' cries were tender and doleful: "Whee-eet, whee-eet, whee-eet." Torrance smiled: "When I hear that, it's all I can do to pull the trigger." And he proceeded to blaze away...
These days, starting a new big-city daily takes more money than most men have or care to risk. The mortality rate reaches perilously close to 100%, and even if the tender seedling manages somehow to sprout, it must struggle for growth in the sun-robbing shadow of sturdy old plants-well-rooted dailies that have been around long enough to become a habit. These difficulties seem particularly obvious in Phoenix, Ariz., which already has two papers-Eugene Pulliam's Republic and Gazette-and has indicated no crying need for another. Yet last week the city was alive with...
Novelist Saul Bellow's first play Upper Depths is a comedy about a celebrated TV comedian who has serious aspirations (no date set). Chester Morris and Signe Hasso are in something called The Tender Heel-about a modern Achilles, of course, set in a Florida fishing village (Oct. 21). Man on Ice confronts an anthropologist with a Neanderthal in a cave. Director John Gerstad (The Seven Year Itch) has yet to pick an actor for either role, but the latter should be a snap (February). One half-cast comedy is The Owl and the Pussycat, by Wilton Manhoff...