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Five hundred Chinese prisoners shuffled toward the 32 "explanation" tents in the valley. Behind them, in the compounds of Indian Village, their 22,000 comrades were banging pans and canteens, shouting "Death to Mao Tse-tung." This was the long-awaited day when the U.N. stand against forced repatriation of prisoners (which had prolonged the Korean war 16 months) was to get its first real test: the free choice of the P.W.s themselves. After listening to the Communist explanations, the P.W.s could leave each tent by one of two doors: one led to Communist China; the other...
...burst a pimple on his face and flicked its contents at the explainers. Another listened for a while, then remarked contemptuously: "The others are waiting for me to sit in on a mah-jongg game in the compound . . . Try not to waste any more of my time." In Tent 7, a stocky Chinese, with Nationalist emblems sewn on his blouse, faced three Communists, sweating and fidgety in green-brown wool uniforms. This is what was said...
...money matching pennies with a "very agreeable fellow who said he was a Texan, too. from Amarillo." Ever since, Bob has had a hopeless affair with fairs and carnivals, and today he is the best barker Dallas ever had, and one of the best in the awesome tent show of Texas...
...approached, indications grew that the Sons were getting set to defy Bonner and the "manmade" school law. Railway dynamitings and house-burnings, two favorite methods of Freedomite protest, broke out around their settlements in the mountainous Kootenay district. Several hundred Freedomites left their homes and set up a tent village at Perry Siding. None of their children showed up for classes when school opened. Instead, the parents stripped for their demonstration...
...first time, it was illumined by neon lights. Mingling with the devout, Naguib performed the seven traditional circuits of the Kaaba, and managed to get close enough to kiss it, as millions had done before him. Outside Mecca, on the plain of Arafat, he arrived at the immense tent city which springs up for one day and vanishes again at nightfall. He sacrificed two rams and made the all-day "stand" on Arafat's hill, half-naked and barefoot, reading the Koran and chanting prayers...