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...Fidel Castro for the F.L.N." Grinned Colonel Boumedienne: "That won't make the Americans happy." Contagious Guns. While the tribesmen roasted an entire sheep on a spit for lunch, Algerian horsemen charged back and forth on the plain below, rising in their saddles to fire their flintlocks in unison at the sky. The contagion spread to the F.L.N. troops on the ridges and crests. and for 20 minutes gunshots echoed in the hills. Moslem children burst into tears and some of the guests looked nervously toward the border, fearing the French might respond by firing in earnest. But French...
...Bolero." The Club stops (musically) in Korea, China, The Philippines, and Thailand, but it sounds as if it has never escaped the office of G. Schirmers in New York. Only the Indian anthem by Sir Rabindranath Tagore, Khoro Bayu Boy Bege ("The Optimist Against Odds") breaks loose: a vigorous unison from start to stop suggests the musically muscular Soviet Army Chorus, with which, incidentally, the Glee Club compares quite favorably. Before covering Italy, Germany, France, and England on Side Two, the Club creates a various and delightful performance of Bela Bartok's Five Slovak Folksongs...
...going to convoke the second national general assembly of the people of Cuba. It will be the most gigantic act of the revolution and of the people." Castro apparently intends to demonstrate to Latin America that so long as he can assemble great crowds to shout slogans in unison, why in the world would anyone want free elections...
Surging toward the 100-day-old barrier one combustible night last week, thousands of young West Berliners roared in unison: "The Wall must go!" Set against the doom-crying argument that West Berlin is a good place for youth to get out of, it was a notable show of spirit-and much of it came from a notably spirited school: the Free University of Berlin. When the Communists put up the Wall in August, pessimists predicted a mass exodus of students and teachers from West Berlin. In fact, the reverse has happened. When it began its winter semester this month...
...trainee's lips were flecked with blood. The instructor ignored it. "Your exit was too quick and you didn't keep your elbows in," he snapped. "Jump again." Near by a captain walking behind a row of trainees suddenly barked: "Hit it!" The men bowed seemingly in unison and shouted: "Airborne!" But four who had been slow to react by a flicker were set to doing pushups. Explained the captain: "We teach them to respond instantly to stimuli, such as a command." Under pressure of this sort, morale is sky-high in the 82nd. Enlisted men call...