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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Like a thousand other villages in Italy's Mezzogiorno (midday, i.e., the south), Castelpoto (pop. 2,800) was bone-poor and bright Red. A medieval huddle of stone houses high in the Neapolitan Apennines, it had no sewage system, no running water, no schoolhouse, no movie, and almost no electricity. On chilly winter evenings peasant women lit bundles of twigs on their mud floors to warm their chimneyless, smoke-blackened houses. When party organizers moved in after the war, Communism took Castelpoto with a rush-even to the local branch of Catholic Action, whose leader, Costanzo Savoia, became mayor...
From Andau, the motorcade moved on to the bigger camp at Eisenstadt, through which about 60,000 refugees have passed en route to other lands. Ten thousand of them were at the camp when he arrived. Once again, there was the press of newsmen and refugees, the snatches of conversation, the handshakes and the good wishes, and once again on Nixon's part a winning display of cordial good fellowship. After that came Traiskirchen, another camp, another crowd. The visitor's one quiet moment came as he attended a Christmas party and play for the refugee children...
...departure time by at least two days. Bit by grudging bit, they inched back from the canal highway, from the airfield, from the battered city itself, until at last they had handed over all authority to the Swedes, Danes and Norwegians of the U.N. Expeditionary Force. Then the last thousand "beachhead" troops ended the 48-day occupation and marched aboard the ships that had been waiting for them all the time...
Christ will return and the world will end some time between March 21, 1843 and March 21, 1844, said William Miller. So did many another European and American Bible scholar. They based their calculations mainly on Daniel 8:14 ("And he said unto me. Unto two thousand and three hundred days; then shall the sanctuary be cleansed"), taking the "days" as years and the cleansing of the sanctuary as the end of the world. William Miller, a Baptist minister of Low Hampton, N.Y., was not an educated man, but he was sincere and persuasive; when the dread year came, Millerites...
...compensation, as he slowly recovers strength the patient feels reborn and cast in a different mold-more tolerant, more kindly, more reflective than before. Says Stuart: "My world had been a thousand friends in a hundred cities, ten cups of coffee and loud talk until three in the morning. Now my world was reduced to my home, my farm, my hills. I lived more closely with my wife, my daughter, my animal friends. I thought more deeply of my God." And implicit in the book is the strongly held feeling that the close brush with death was well worth...