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...quarantine proves ineffective. The infection rages through Drohitz and the surrounding countryside and Ember, promoted from subaltern to Commissioner of Deceased Persons, runs out both coffins and burial parties. At novel's end the army marches off to another regrouping point, still expecting 'ever new and more glorious victories." The surviving Drohitzers are left in a defenseless city, a death trap for the advancing enemy...
...games in Melbourne (8 of 13 gold medals for men and women combined). And then there are the Japanese, who dominated Olympic men's swimming in the 1930s and are only now beginning to regain their prewar form with a crack team. In prospect is a glorious Roman water carnival...
When the U.S. angrily reacted by virtually cutting off 1960 Cuban-sugar imports, Che got a Russian dividend-a threat by Premier Khrushchev to fire rockets at the U.S. if it intervened in Cuba. The gesture moved Che to call Cuba "a glorious island in the middle of the Caribbean, defended by the rockets of the greatest military power in history." Where tanning U.S. tourists and businessmen once sipped daiquiris on the brink of clear blue hotel pools, broad-cheeked Russian and impassive Red Chinese technicians now take their ease...
...Communist South-east Asia. How he plans to do this--by being rude to the Russians, by being nice to them, or simply by aiming rockets at them whenever they behave badly--he gives no indication. The entire plank, in fact, when it is not hoping for a glorious future and deploring the recognition of Red China, is celebrating the end of the Korean War and other accomplishments of the Eisenhower Administration. The Democratic plank also is riddled with irritating platitudes, but is a doctoral dissertion by comparison...
...town is Hindon. The old editor does not delude himself that Hindon's old days were ever glorious, but the town once did have strength and reasonable expectations. Today, for reasons that are only partly economic, it has turned sick and sour. When Connie Tyler, fresh out of Harvard, came to Hindon in 1900 as a cub reporter for the Courier-Freeman, the reigning Yankees - the old-line whaling and rum-trading families which regularly produced one Harvard professor, one state Governor and one well-bred alcoholic in each generation - had only begun to abdicate. Jostled from political control...