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The minutes on the ground stretched into hours, for LaGuardia was hemmed in by fog and snow to within three-quarters of a mile's visibility, and the unrelenting snow had piled up on the big wings of Northeast's DC-6A. Flight 823's Captain Alva...
Four years ago, the guard towers spindled out from Saigon mile after mile along the main roads, outposts of frightened men in a teeming darkness of shadowy figures and shadowy hate. One such guard tower was a central factor in Graham Greene's Quiet American, a semi-novel purporting...
Seven-Storied Hope. For President Diem, slowly and almost unnoticed by the outside world, has brought to South Viet Nam a peace and stability few would have dared predict when his country was dismembered at Geneva three years ago. Last week a traveler could journey from one end of the...
In recent months LIFE-like Swiat (World) magazine has run excerpts from Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell's prophetic novel about the sterile lives of "unpersons" in a totalitarian society. Another magazine carried a lengthy review of ex-Communist Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, hailed his savage...
He kept on writing. An Outcast of the Islands was a tale of progressive moral ruin, told with a ruthless Dostoevskian logic up to a point of no return. Lord Jim, which read like a boy's story, was actually a painful parable of the penance a man must do...