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...eyes for fire bombs. They cross the city from (half a line censored) again and again... looking for something, or taking bearings. Now they are over us; now they are away to the north; they are dropping flares and a section of the city is incarmined, whilst above innumerable search light beams thrash the inky sky. Within a few seconds the flares are shot out, and the sky darkens. The search lights follow the planes South.... West... back again in a great triangle, and then more flares drop slowly to earth showing up black buildings against the same blood...
...group of little children in the country were on their way to school. Suddenly several shots were fired at them from the bushes, but no one was hit. The father came along, decided that since no child was hurt there was nothing to be done, not even to search the bushes...
Very little credit has ever gone to the gruff, dour little Chicago lawyer. He was 67 on March 15, and the most careful search of the records fails to show any major occasion in the 67 years where any substantial group of citizens or high officials (or even low officials) ever paid him any great tribute, named a street or a baby after him, sent him flowers or just told him they loved...
Like the Spanish edition (Selecciones del Reader's Digest), the Portuguese Selacçàaos will lose money to start with. Two further ideas will increase Reader's Digest's Latin American budget: 1) a talent-scouting trip, now afield, in search of articles from Latin America (not to exceed 40% of magazine's content); 2) sponsoring free U.S. tours for Latin American writers...
Thanks to Talleyrand's principles, says Ferrero, "in 24 hours a definitive peace was made, a peace for which the Revolution had spent twenty years of fruitless search; and in 24 hours the deadly circle of fear creating abuse of force, which in turn augments the fear, was broken...