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They will choose their government and the opportunity for a decent, finer life for the humblest of citizens, and they will reject the Communist system of terror and torture, extortion and fear. And when that choice is finally made, then the Viet Cong will wither and fade away...
Weariness could not wither nor repetition stale Hubert's infinite exuberance. Whether addressing U.S. combat units in Viet Nam or discussing the merits of U.S. tractors with Laotian officials, handing out Senate gallery passes to giggling Pakistani nurses or teaching Thai children to say "O.K." and "Goodbye," Humphrey was on center stage every minute of his trip. His only moment of humiliation came in, of all places, friendly Saigon, where, despite his blandishments and some rafter-ringing hooo-ees, the black Berkshire hogs at an agricultural-experiment station haughtily ignored the Vice President-evidence, no doubt, that the Viet...
...chronic drought that is a way of life in the Sahara and the Middle East has now descended on lands as far off as Korea and Bechuanaland. Australia is suffering its worst water shortage in half a century; the normally moist northeastern U.S. is watching its green lawns wither through the end of a dry summer while its reservoir levels drop lower and lower. And even in the areas where water remains abundant, man is fouling it with his untreated sewage and industrial wastes...
...MAKEPEACE EXPERIMENT, by Abram Tertz. The pseudonymous author, a Russian satirist who smuggled out four previous novels, writes a deft parable about Communism in which a village bicycle mechanic learns to control people by "mental magnetism." With his new powers, the mechanic makes the village government "wither away," with disastrously funny results...
...Abram Tertz. The pseudonymous author, a Russian satirist who has smuggled out four previous novels, writes a deft parable in which Communist bosses are likened to a village bicycle mechanic who learns to control people with "mental magnetism." With his new powers, the mechanic makes the village government "wither away," with disastrously funny results...