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...then reporters realized that if real people instead of mannequins had inhabited the village, only a few would have survived. Inside the standing houses, Venetian blinds had been tossed around like bundles of spears, furniture hurled in grotesque stacks, cloth torn and seared. A refrig erator had exploded from the change in air pressure. Two of three steel industrial buildings were ruined. A doorknob had been torn from a door and cast half through a wall, so that there was a doorknob where there was no door. Each of two typical American houses, one brick, one wood, was a pile...
Outside a furniture warehouse that was being used as a sorting station for casualties in Beaumont, Texas, the "wounded" were lying on litters in the street. There was row upon row of forms splattered with red paint, wearing torn and dirty old clothes. Word came that the disaster hospital, set up in an elementary school ten blocks away, was ready. Volunteer bearers lifted a litter. "Hey, what you got?" asked one of the cases. "Both legs blown off!" was the grinning reply...
...next, Comrade Borodin, who is the next?" whispers the professor to his assistant at the scientific meeting at Rostov. Before the meeting ends, the professor himself is called out of the hall and arrested by the secret police. A promising young colleague is torn from his career and family, charged with being a "wrecker." Another goes mad, paints himself with red ink in the laboratory courtyard, in the belief that it will make him immune from arrest. The author of One Man in His Time, who used to inform against his colleagues as a "duty,'' recounts the stories...
...really effective, it would need powers of enforcement, but Congressional sentiment currently opposes such controls. As it stands, the organization could at least help gain the removal of "discriminatory restrictions" against 'United States' exports. By promoting the conversion of currency, OTC could encourage investments in underdeveloped and war-torn countries...
...night." Inside the clinic, a former warehouse in a newly liberated village of South Viet Nam, a group of Filipino doctors were performing a Caesarean section on a Vietnamese peasant woman. Their operating table was covered with a G.I. blanket and a strip of white cotton cloth torn from a CARE package; their patient was secured by wires nailed to the side of the table and lifted above her body by wedges of C-ration cans. Their light consisted of one electric bulb and half a dozen flashlights trained upon the incision by Filipino nurses. One nurse was assigned...