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...Arab refugees, to push French massacres in Algeria, to threaten the world with atomic disaster. Street stands are cluttered with paperback tracts such as one called This Is America, with a cover picture of Eisenhower as the Statue of Liberty, holding a gallows rope instead of a torch...
...kind of glittering circus that could be mounted by no Latin American nation except oil-rich Venezuela. Pérez Jiménez and his guest got things started by snapping to attention in Caracas' Plaza Bolívar while a comely maiden presented a "sacred torch," run into town by relays of students from the battle shrine at Carabobo, 120 miles away. Then, before a crowd of 100,000, the two strongmen dedicated the Avenue of Heroes, a gaudy, neo-Grecian plaza fronting the mammoth Armed Forces Club. The avenue's two 100-ft. towers, six reflecting...
...days it was uncannily quiet, then at midnight the blacks hit back with an animal roar. Propelled by a rumor that their Fignole had been put to death, they burst out of the slums, put the torch to eight buildings, sacked a government warehouse. Truckloads of soldiers rolled up, sprayed the wailing, raging rioters with gunfire in the light of the flames and machine-gunned their flimsy shacks. Trucks loaded with prisoners taken at bayonet point rolled off to the jails, and the morgues of Port-au-Prince were full...
...tried to rush it, George Bernard Shaw might have succeeded in giving the English-speaking peoples a phonetic alphabet. Says the Smithsonian Torch, a slim house organ put out by the Smithsonian Institution for the museum set: "We are in complete accord with Bernard Shaw's campaign for a simplified alphabet. But instead of immediate drastic legislation, we advocate a modified plan...
...noble, Yet while the scientists seemed to be concerned about the social implications of their research, they have taken a rather short-sighted view of the political results of their protests Democrats and Free Democrats have used the effects of broadcasted atomic fears upon Germany's people as a torch in their campaign against Adenauer. Moreover, the move has threatened to nullify the Government's plan to reduce manpower by some 300,000 men and re-form Germany's seven divisions into highly mobile units...