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...roared through the streets, urging soldiers: "Go and join your units immediately." Buses and trucks were commandeered by the army to transport troops to the front. No one was quite sure where the front was; it seemed to be moving rapidly toward the capital. Seoul's jails, which contain many political prisoners suspected of plotting against the Southern regime, were heavily guarded by jittery police...
...Portland, Ore., Builder Franklin T. White is frankly copying many features of Levitt's ranch-type house, adding some of his own-and selling it at a higher price ($8,500). In Philadelphia, Matthew McCloskey Jr. is at work building 522 Levitt-type houses, though they do not contain all the Levitt equipment...
Round-faced, grey-haired little Don Zeno, 50, is the founder and sparkplug of Nomadelphia, which means "Town of Brotherhood." His followers call themselves the Piccoli Apostoli (Little Apostles). The Little Apostles may well contain the seeds of a movement destined to outlast Don Zeno and his disordered century...
...London and Paris, sent a manuscript to a Chicago publisher. In the somewhat hectic conditions prevailing for small, avant-garde publishing firms, the manuscript was lost. Not until this year was Ezra Pound's essay Patria Mia accidentally recovered-in a dusty package which had been supposed to contain only old bills. Thirty-seven years behind schedule, the publisher dutifully sent the work to the printers...
...letter MacIntyre expressed the hope that the next bottle would contain more than a message. He wrote, "I am sending you this note which I found in a bottle on the shore at the mouth of the Harvard River on the west coast of South Uist. Hoping this will find you in the best of health. I hope you will send 100 pounds in your next bottle...