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...country fairly outdoing itself with git-up-&-git. "Our basic economy," he said, "has never been more healthy. More than 60 million civilians are gainfully employed-a figure that sounded fantastic only a few years ago. Incomes average higher than ever before. Our factories are turning out a torrent of products...
...Zermatt, Arosa and St. Moritz were cut off. Houses were buried on the outskirts of Andermatt. Some 500 British and 70 American tourists suffered a sybaritic exile, stranded in the luxury hotels of Davos. In central Switzerland the 4,100-ft. high village of Vals was crushed by a torrent of snow, rock and snapped timber. A small hotel at Oberalpsee was completely buried...
...roadside, a mile from Seoul, lay the frozen body of a barefooted little boy, face down in a tangled knot of abandoned telephone wire. Past his stiff, straight body moved a torrent of refugees, carrying whatever possessions they could balance on their heads or strap to their tired backs. Few glanced at the dead child; the sight was too common...
...pretending to distribute land if you take it from other poor people. It's me you're hurting. Where will I plant my cactuses? They yield good fruit. They keep me alive. This is robbery with violence." Then he burst into abuse: "May this road become a torrent with the first rains! May it drown all of you and bring a curse on your families, on Ente Sila and those it benefits...
Down the Cow. As gusty as he is lusty, Peirce talks a high, nasal torrent, mixing gamy reminiscences of the good old days with whatever notions happen to float through his head. At one moment he remembers persuading Hemingway to fight a bull in Spain while Peirce stood by with his Kodak to record the scene for posterity: "Only it was a cow. He damn near got killed, and then I found out there was something wrong with the camera-no picture." At the next moment, his mind still running to Hemingway, he offers a literary pronouncement: "Four-letter words...