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Inside a barbed-wire enclosure, where the crews of a troop carrier squadron were confined like some kind of rare and precious birds, a whistle skirled. Pilots, copilots, navigators turned out, listened to the briefing. They squinted at the sky. It was a squally night with a fitful, pale moon...
Jesus' chief failing as a great man, says Mumford, was his "indifference" to art, philosophy, science and "political improvement." But Jesus is "hardly responsible," Author Mumford believes, for the "little men who guarded Jesus' memory, took him, drained off the precious life blood of his spirit, mummified his body . . . and over his remains . . . proceeded to erect . . . the Christian Church...
...young refugee fled from Occupied France to Marseilles. No one there knew that Weidel was dead. At the Mexican Consulate they were wondering why the author had never turned up to claim the precious visa offered him by the Mexican Government. Gradually, the young refugee found himself stepping into the dead man's shoes. In Weidel's name he obtained the Mexican visa. Then he fell in love with a refugee woman, who was searching the Marseilles cafes for her husband. Her husband's name: Weidel...
...Author Seghers writes, this strange story does not seem fantastic. For Transit is filled with the weird reality of the flight of thousands of refugees to U.S. consulates that wielded a power of life & death over them. Day after day the refugees stand in endless lines, waiting for the precious documents with their bindings of red tape. Incessantly they discuss the same things-visas, exit permits, transit permits, ship sailings. They are harrowed by terrible doubts: should a family leave its ailing grandmother to die alone, or should they sit by her side until death-and then find the visas...
...which is practically out of this world-it took nearly three months for the full story to reach the U.S. Present at the enthronement was the Rev. Victor Guy Plymire, a longtime American missionary. After patiently waiting through eight hours of ceremony and gift-giving (the presents ranged from precious silver ornaments to a sheep stomach filled with butter), Missionary Plymire was finally permitted to take a picture (see cut) of the new Lama, six-year-old Tuteng Tueh...