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...estate caretaker. When Abrams was a boy, the family settled in the rural area of nearby Feeding Hills. There Abrams raised baby beef, ran a trap line for skunk and muskrat, patched together a wheezing model T and learned to shoot by drilling holes with his .22 through tin cans tossed up by his father...
...festive sounds that came from the tin-roofed village school at Namone last week suggested a cocktail party more than a peace conference. Burgundy and beer at lunch added to the hilarity. While the spokesman for the ''neutralist" bloc laughed uproariously at his own jokes, pigs rooted about on the dirt floor scavenging bits of juicy pork and chicken from the table. Even stone-faced General Phoun Sipraseuth, leader of the Communist Pathet Lao delegation, occasionally showed a frozen smile...
...diluting, which end in travesty. The films of Hamlet, Wuthering Heights or David Copperfield are obvious examples of one kind of demolition...To see the works of the Impressionists twisted into backgrounds for advertising perfume; to hear the melodies of Bach, Mozart, Berlioz and Chopin re-handled by Tin Pan Alley; to listen to absent-minded hacks giving the lowdown on high art...all this is destructive in the same measure that it is communicative...
...emergency bill to the President authorizing the General Services Administration to sell 2,000,000 Ibs. of goosefeathers and down (used in sleeping bags, flight jackets, survival suits), which it has been hoarding since 1947 (along with iodine, opium, castor oil, sperm oil, diamonds, sapphires, rubies, instruments, missiles, aluminum, tin, zinc, lead, nickel, bismuth and platinum). When Delaware's Senator John Williams asked how many feathers the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization had collected, he was told that the information was classified...
...political parties, waiting their chance to try a comeback. On Malaya's east coast fanatic Moslems in the Pan Malayan Islamic Party preach Malay race supremacy over the Chinese. Any downward plunge of the economy-always a possibility should there be a precipitous drop in world rubber or tin prices-would strengthen the extremists. "All this implies a state of balance so precarious.'' says U.S. Far Eastern Scholar Willard Hanna, "that one stumble might lead to disaster. The miracle is that so far no one has stumbled...