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...Communist Huk rebels is more than a military problem. The Huk rank & file-and most Huk sympathizers-are poor, landless peasants, led into rebellion by Communist promises of Utopia. Magsaysay has come to believe that a little government help and a few acres of land would transform Huk guerrillas into peaceful citizens...
...year after year paying billions of dollars extra as the price of these wastes . . . [Now] we hope obvious reforms which might otherwise be delayed a half century can be put into immediate effect." If the building industry can cut its own notorious wastes, it will help transform the economic life of the nation...
...soon burgeons into a well-organized, well-paying racket whose wealthy victims are invariably demoralized by the sight of the gang's own dog picking up the ransom at the payoff rendezvous. When the spoils grow too large for the nine youngsters to spend safely on themselves, they transform Montmartre with such anonymous good deeds as giving an elderly couple the funds for a marriage license to celebrate 40 years of unwedded bliss...
...19th Century was bogged down in "precedent, old times, and respectability," was "cluttered and tangled up with a thousand senseless notions and stupidities." Almost everywhere the whip was used "to crush and tame the mettlesome, soothe the feverish and nervous, reduce the spirits where they are too high, and transform impertinence and obstinacy to mildness and soft obedience." Schools had become "penitential purgatories," and teachers "identified with a dozen unpleasant . . . associations-a sour face, a whip, hard knuckles snapped on tender heads . . ." It was not only whips and sour faces that bothered Whitman. He complained of the overcrowded classrooms...
...which we are remotely analyzing) football, accurate prediction of the possible outcome of a significant athletic encounter is, of course, made even more difficult by factors of which the observer is not aware until the exact moment that the contest commences: adverse weather, a driving rain, fro example, can transform a swift group of athletes into eleven separate amorphous masses, clumsiness incarnate; besides, good coaching, too, cannot be under-stressed, vital as it is in the transformation of a promising team into a team with great potential; spirit, that greatest of all abstractions, is, perhaps, most important...