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...Istiqlal Leader Mehdi ben Barka insisted that the Istiqlal had been planning the coup for weeks as part of its policy of agrarian reform and "researching the origin of wealth acquired by traitors." Though the Sultan had temporarily managed to claim leadership of the move, the ominous fact was that the Istiqlal had not bothered to let the Sultan know its plans -indicating a split between the Istiqlal's zealous progressives and the Sultan's slower modernism...
...beyond a trickle of gold and ivory, the marauding chieftains of the interior had only human bodies to offer in trade was evidence of the real poverty of the people within-an ill-fed, disease-and fear-ridden race. To the African tribesman, whatever his ancestry or point of origin, the realities of life were pretty much the same all over the land. They consisted primarily of the village and the bush-the clearing in the forest where the tribal family had pitched its camp for a week or a day or a season, and the dark and hostile world...
...disease has a rather exotic origin; it apparently began somewhere in the Far East, and travelling West, enjoyed moderate success with European varieties of elm. It was not until 1919, however, that Cerastomella really caught hold; beetles carried to this country on elm logs to be used for furniture veneer somehow escaped, and carried the fungus to the Elysian Fields of Unius americana. Travelling up the Connecticut River Valley into New England, and westward as far as the Mississippi, the beetle-fungus team has outrun its pursuers, cutting a determined swath which pathologists estimate will exterminate most of the genus...
...Nashville to discuss segregation in churches (TIME, May 6), the Presbyterians' message further condemned churchmen and churchgoers who worship with Jim Crow, urged ministers to create "a social climate . . . which will encourage a free concourse of men of good will, regardless of their race, status or national origin." Too often, said the Presbyterians, churches "mistake social compatibility for Christian fellowship," and recruit members from only one stratum of society...
...Quick as he was to name any attempt to adjust, manipulate or remove the thoughts of people, he was no psychological writer. He preferred to stay near the surface of things, things like the aspidistra, the London crowds, loved collectively with their bad teeth and knobby faces, his own origin in the "lower-upper-middle-class" where one's gentility was mostly theoretical and people had "nothing to lose but their aitches...