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...nation got a sharp warning. A joint congressional committee of tax experts estimated last week that at the present rate of income and outgo, the U.S. would be in the red another $3 billion by next year. Such big round numbers had lost their ability to shock, the government was already $252 billion in debt. But one fact could be understood. If even in prosperous peacetime a government did not keep out of the red, then it was playing with economic dynamite...
Some people of the Southwest believe that the coyote never dies, some that the yowling beasts can talk, in Indian languages and Mexican-Spanish. Nobody is better qualified to round up all such legends, and more factual reports on the canny coyote, than Texas' shock-haired Professor Dobie, who knows as much about the Southwest as any man (Coro-nado's Children, Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver), and who has, moreover, lectured about it at Britain's Cambridge University (TIME...
...Arms aid now would be a serious shock to direct Russian-American relations, which seem to be picking up slightly...
When he is brought back to his Pacific base from a dangerous mission to a Jap-held island, the Negro G.I., Moss (James Edwards), is Suffering from shock, which has paralyzed him from the waist down. Under the care of a sympathetic Army psychiatrist, Moss fumbles back through the fogs of amnesia to what happened on the island. He recalls his hatred of a Negro-baiting corporal (Steve Brodie), and his resentment of all white men, even his friends (Lloyd Bridges and Frank Lovejoy...
...nimbly precipitates a commonplace situation into quiet mystery, then active horror. "The Lottery" is an allegory, and a fine one: it cuts too close to the heart of people and their customs to be anything much else. You can also take it as a straight dose of hair-trigger shock, if you'd rather. The story does quite as well either way and makes Miss Jackson's book worth reading...