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...also suggested that the U.S. hence forth will expect more respect from all nations and more help from its allies: "We will not, and should not assume it is the task of Americans alone to settle all the conflicts of a torn and troubled world." At times Johnson struck a nice balance between selfless service and enlightened self-interest in U.S. dealings with the world, but in sum, as Paris' Le Monde put it, on foreign affairs, he suffered from "creative inertia...
...first leg of a four-month, State-Department-sponsored tour of the Far East and Africa, Folk Singers Steve Addiss, 29, and Bill Crofut, 30, have spent the last month hopscotching around the outlying villages in war-torn Viet Nam. Armed with a banjo, two guitars, a flute, a French horn and a 16-string Vietnamese zither called a dan tranh, they sang in schools and hospitals, in the streets and rice fields. They sang American, Vietnamese, Indonesian and Cambodian folk songs, often to a thumping chorus of artillery and mortar fire, slept on wooden planks, hitchhiked rides...
...swollen floodwaters. A spreading flood from the Willamette River forced evacuation of Salem's Memorial Hospital, and 1,000 other Salem people packed their belongings and fled for high ground. Elsewhere in the state, people were drowned as their cars washed over fallen bridges or were electrocuted by torn power lines. At Reedsport, a railroad bridge across the Umpqua River was opened for a three-story house which floated out into the Pacific Ocean -the fourth house to float by. In Idaho, snow slides and rising water cut off village after village in the southern part of the state...
...mood-eats hardware: spoons, wobblers, plugs, strings of red beads, or just about anything else an imaginative fisherman happens to tie to his hook. It does not rise to the lure like a finicky rainbow, it attacks it enthusiastically-so hard that the pole may literally be torn from an unwary angler's grasp...
Sebastian's story begins as the summer idyl of a well-to-do youth on his family's Danubian estate. His sleep of innocence is torn awake by the discovery of corruption all around him, including incest between his sister and oldest brother. Sebastian flees from home and enlists in the army to find "purity and heroism" in combat; he becomes a daredevil tank commander on the East ern Front as Rumania joins the Axis in the war against Russia. Again reality catches up with the dream, as he witnesses such atrocities as the poisoning of village wells...