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Guido Corini had less reason than most to be happy about World War II and its aftermath. An Allied bullet left his spine permanently and painfully deformed. An air raid killed his wife and only child. The best peacetime job he could find at 42 was that of broom-wielder and errand boy in a Milanese gas appliance factory. Guido's fellow workers left him strictly alone after finding that their most innocent remarks evoked a tirade of resentful acrimony. His bosses found him sullen. They would have fired Guido long ago had not Plant Director Luigi Daniele insisted...
Receding Threats. It was an aim both more difficult and more inspiring than "containment." For the world holds more ills than Soviet Russia-a fact of which the U.S. was sharply reminded last week by the truculent Egyptians and an assassin's bullet in Pakistan. A year ago, the real meaning of these reminders would have been drowned out in the clamorous urgency of dealing with the threat of world Communism. But as the immediate Soviet threat recedes, the U.S. can understand that the challenges it faces in the Near and Middle East (and also in the Far East...
...Brothers in Islam," Liaquat began-and at that moment there was a sharp report, then another. Liaquat fell to the ground, crying: "Goli lag gai!" (The bullet...
Russian Roulette. At 17, he tried the most drastic cure for boredom he could think of: Russian roulette. He put a bullet in a revolver, spun the chambers, then put the muzzle to his head and pulled the trigger. "It was a gamble with six chances to one against an inquest." He learned that he could enjoy the world again for a while by risking its total loss. But even toying with life became a bore. The fifth time he tried it, "I wasn't even excited." The sixth time was the last...
Then there is the Bait and Bullet section, the Ledyard Canoe Club with 16 boats and a shed, the Mountaineering Club. Dartmouth Underground or the Speleological Club for Spelunkers which explores caverns, and the Natural History Club...