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...fingers and thumbs formed into a diamond signifies "bread." But in today's complex world, with Trappists operating farms and small industries, sign language is not enough. Says one Catholic prelate: "A few years ago we still used horses, but how is a monk supposed to explain a breakdown of his tractor to a mechanic in sign language...
...CONVERSATIONS FROM THE EARLIER YEARS OF MY LIFE, by Edmund Wilson. Turning to autobiography after 51 years as critic, journalist, essayist, poet, playwright and novelist, Wilson draws entries from a journal begun in 1914. The result is a rich account juxtaposing his growth as a writer with the breakdown of his snug prewar world...
Large Questions. The President made a dramatic move in a prime-time television address to the nation at midweek. Again he deplored the breakdown of law and order, warning rioters that "explanations may be offered, but nothing can excuse what they have done. The violence must be stopped: quickly, finally, and permanently." But he also pleaded for "an attack-mounted at every level-upon the conditions that breed despair and violence." There is no other way, he said, to achieve a "decent and orderly society...
...been dropped near Wuhan and that gunboats had moved up the Yangtze, readying an attack on the rebel city unless it surrenders. Peking recently forbade foreigners to read and report on wall posters, a ban that is scarcely enforceable. Chinese radio communications monitored in Tokyo indicated a spreading breakdown in transportation. Passenger service in the Yangtze between Shanghai and Wuhan has been discontinued, and China's only electrified rail line, connecting Shensi and Szechwan provinces, was reported out of order...
...governmental organs of the United States, then, have been derelict in their care of the ghetto situation. In the last week or so, a total breakdown of law and order across the nation belatedly pulled the blinders off many officials, like the President...