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History was well along before it occurred to anybody that there were two ways of looking at war. War was war -bloody, awful, sometimes glorious-and the normal way in which a nation established itself in the days when Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria and Persia were harrying each other for territory and tribute. Aggression invariably had the sanction of a deity. The Israelites' takeover of the Canaanites was commanded by Jehovah himself. And wars were usually as total as soldiers with limited technology could make them...
Then Lin and Mao created the Red Guards by the simple if shudder-making device of closing the high schools and universities of China indefinitely and turning the nation's youth loose on one long, glorious holiday of travel and excitement in the service of Mao. Lin's army helped organize the youth into coherent bands, equipped them with uniforms and badges, and sent them out to give their elders what-for in a lark whose attractiveness any teeny-bopper or Berkeley rebel would instantly recognize. Mao thus hoped to fire with revolutionary fervor the very generation that...
...puns except their own -which, of course, are far superior to those thought up by the troops. Imagine how proud World Writers John Blashill, Robert Jones and Jason McManus felt last April when their story on Kwame Nkrumah's zoo, titled Fangs a Lot, made the magazine -74 glorious lines of puns about what happened "since the day Nkrumah was ostrichized." The day after the story appeared, some of us had second thoughts; but to make matters worse, TIME readers respunded in kine: "Next time some anteloper in Ghana snake in and monkey around with the gnus, lemur know...
Some tilt windmills; the Harvard wrestling team tries to beat Cornell for the Ivy League championship. This year Coach Bob Pickett will juggle his line-up before each meet to fulfill his glorious quest...
Inspired by their cheerleaders, the men of K. C. Jones battled back. On a jumper by Barry immerman, they closed the lead to 43-41. At this point, Harvard started this season in earnest with a glorious 13-point burst. Gallagher, who was seven-for-seven from the floor, and Barth Royer (15 points) chipped in two buckets each to the rally...