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...Enemy. Rather than suffer the indignities of equality, thousands of Boers packed their belongings into ox wagons and trekked out of the Cape Colony toward the unknown lands beyond the Drakensberg Mountains. They called themselves voortrekkers, and their journey was long and perilous. To cross the mountain passes, they often had to dismantle the wagons and carry them piece by piece. And in escaping from the British, they ran into a new enemy: the Bantu...
...cellist was "exceptional," declared Boston Symphony Concertmaster Joseph Silverstein. The pianist played "as well as anybody need ever play," said Conductor Erich Leinsdorf. The soloists who won these praises from such rigorous judges were not big concert stars but virtually unknown American students: New York City's Stephen Kates, 23, and Los Angeles' Misha Dichter, 20, both fresh from winning silver medals at the Third International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow...
...state-parks system, streamlined the state government and, in the process, established himself as something of a national figure, particularly in his post as chairman of the Republican Governors Association. Yet Idaho's Republican voters had just dumped him in the Republican gubernatorial primary, giving his nationally unknown opponent 61% of the vote and all but six of the state's 44 counties...
...unsettling plaint of Austin's police chief that "this kind of thing could have happened anywhere." What is ultimately so disturbing about the 23 lives so taken is that nearly all were snuffed out for no reason and at random. In almost every case, they were unnamed and unknown to their killers, the incidental and impersonal casualties of uncharted battlefields that exist only in demented minds. They were sacrifices to the irrational, wherein lies, as it always has for reasoning man, the ultimate terror. They were victims of the blind fury of the psychotic murderer...
Never before has tactical air power been used so intensively to help fight a ground war. As a result, American pilots in Viet Nam must possess a versatility unknown to their World War II counterparts. They man a varied flock of craft ranging from the sleek, 1,500-mile-an-hour F-4C Phantom jets to windmilling Skyraiders. Their work is peculiarly dangerous, involving multiple threats from sky and ground; more than 300 American planes have been shot down. It takes guts and guile...