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After five years, with the help of the scriptures and horoscopes, they were led to a shepherd's family on the grassy upland meadows not far from Naribanchin itself. There they found what they had been searching for-a five-year-old boy said to have been born on the very day and at the very hour of the old hutukhtu's death. That was the beginning of the new hutukhtu's education and travels...
...event, the movement's leaders have now given concrete form to the earlier primitive mysticism. To boost their new party in the overcrowded upland states, they war on the ejido (communal land) politicos who often tyrannize the lives of the farmers; they promise the farmers absolute title to their little plots of ejido land. They also incite their fanatical followers to demonstrate against the smalltime grafting political bosses who rule many a village and town. In Leon, Tapachula and Oaxaca such demonstrations led to street fighting and the death of Sinarquistas. When, over the past 18 months, the Aleman...
...mountain and the search plane crashed, too. Only survivor of a ten-man crew, Sergeant Angelo LaSalle of Des Moines, Iowa, was thrown clear, stumbled away from the burning fragments, fell unconscious in the snow. There he was found by Horst Kupski, a onetime Luftwaffe pilot working for an upland French farmer. Kupski wrapped LaSalle in a blanket, removed his own shoes, coat and hat to clothe the American, got him down the mountainside...
...first reels describe the sweet upland bedlam of hens and houseflies, pigs and children in which Uncle Tigna (superbly acted by Aldo Fabrizi, the priest in Open City) lives. He indulges his nagging wife as if she were a pet horsefly, sneaks supper to the children when they are being punished, stains his legs up to the knee treading his grapes, fusses more than the cow over a new calf...
...Gruin took Colin-Ho, his interpreter, along. They got a lift in a Chinese Army C-47, of which Gruin says "The pilot was a cocky, young, U.S.-trained Chinese who had never flown this remote, desolate route, tricky with fierce dust storms, violent thermal drafts rising from the upland deserts, snow-toothed mountains that bite more than 20,000 feet into the sky. He got us through with nothing worse than airsickness to Tihua, dusty, dirty, crossroads capital of Sinkiang, where the racial blood of all Central Asia mingles in the faces on the street. We planned...