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...Except perhaps for the occasion when the French Revolution in 1789 turned on its own former heroes, and all over Paris the busts of Dictator Jean-Paul Marat were smashed, while his body was taken from the Pantheon and thrown into the Montmartre cesspool...
Into the River. In France itself, S.A.O. is getting increasingly bold, and the police itself has become suspect. The Senate investigated alleged police brutality against Algerians in Paris, found that an undisclosed number of Moslem bodies (reliably said to be 60) had been thrown into the Seine or dumped under the trees of the Bois de Boulogne. At week's end police rounded up 30 leaders of the F.L.N. in France, seized $600,000 that they had collected from Moslem workers...
When four of a small town's leading citizens are either thrown into prison or heavily fined for breaking a federal law, the town's preachers and the rest of its' residents must inevitably make some jarring moral adjustments. Just that happened early this year in Pittsfield, Mass., when executives of General Electric (Pittsfield's biggest employer) were convicted of violating the antitrust laws (TIME, Feb. 17). In Christian Century, the Rev. Raymond E. Gibson, who then was pastor of Pittsfield's South Congregational Church, describes the resulting shock. It passed through several waves...
...universe there may be living organisms that contain no amino acids, need no water, and can live and multiply at extremely high or extremely low temperatures. Such exobiota might do better on earth than native living creatures do. Says Lederberg: "We know that whenever two ecological systems are thrown together, the situation becomes unstable." For a homely recent example, he points to South Pacific islanders who were virtually exterminated in the 19th century by measles, whooping cough and other diseases relatively harmless to white...
Improbable though his story seems, a Stone Age man, practically untouched by modern civilization, was alive in the U.S. only 50 years ago. When he stumbled out of the brush near Oroville in northern California one August morning in 1911, he was naked except for a scrap of canvas thrown over his shoulders. Weak and emaciated, he spoke not a word of English or any other known language. It was days before anyone could communicate with him and learn who he was. Now, half a century later, a new book, Ishi in Two Worlds, by Historian Theodora Kroeber (University...