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Amstutz destroyed the transmitter, and he and his wife Elsie spent the next six days praying for rescue, while rebels ranged up and down the street, occasionally firing random barrages into their house...
...discipline of the Katangese soon collapsed. Drunken guerrillas ran amuck, shooting, killing, wounding, maiming and raping. Random executions increased after the rebels heard that a rescue attempt was under way. Some of the guerrillas displayed a kind of gallows humor. A mission priest was confronted by raiders who admired his cutlery, clock and radio...
Marshack, a former science writer who has devoted 15 years to paleolithic studies, has suggested even bolder ideas. In his writings, notably The Roots of Civilization, he says that what looks like random scribbling on cave walls and even on some artifacts may actually represent many different symbol systems. These could have been used to record the passage of the seasons and astronomical observations and to indicate periods of rituals and ceremonies. If these controversial yet hardly dismissable ideas are correct, Cro-Magnon man may well have been experimenting with the precursors of writing, arithmetic, calendar making and other "civilized...
...trouble is that the slices are cut thinner than a bargain LP. They are really just slivers or, more properly, shaving of the sort that pile up beneath an ineptly managed saw. Ill-assorted, illarranged, they seem simply to have been swept up and deposited at random beween the songs in a film that cannot really be said to have been written or directed at anything like a professional evel...
...Responsible for Personal Articles (Random House; $7.95), Lois Gould describes how Woman on the Go might actually make it. Her article How to Liberate Your Entire Family, in Your Own Home, Without Cost or Obligation belongs in an anthology of contemporary folk wisdom. "I have finally concluded," writes Gould, "that ours may be the only middle-class family in America to have taken the final revolutionary step toward total liberation. Our children swab their own bathroom! They also swab ours! Indeed, they vacuum the rugs, do the laundry and the grocery shopping, help prepare meals, do all the cleaning...