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...stepped-up campaign planned by the Attorney General and the chief of the FBI can be anchored firmly to existing law and guided by the sound principles of individual guilt and innocence which have previously applied, the pitfalls of the witch hunt and political persecution can be avoided in this country. [But] it would help to keep the air clear and avoid misconceptions all around if there could be less indulgence of such colorful-but loaded-phrases as "utterly destroy the Communist Party, U.S.A...
...inhabitants: logging camps and old farm villages, hunting lodges of U.S. and Canadian sportsmen, mountaineers living in ancestral log cabins, remnants of the Algonquin and Tètes de Boule Indian tribes, moose, black bears and-to hear the natives tell it-ghosts, werewolves and a ubiquitous, blood-guzzling witch, the Windigo...
...pure-blooded Indians; 38% mixed Indian-and-white, called Ladinos; the rest white. Nearly two-thirds are illiterate, and more than half of the illiterates do not even speak Spanish, using Indian dialects instead; 64% go barefoot. Nominally Roman Catholic, the Indians celebrate Christian festivals with pagan gusto, consult witch doctors oftener than the country's scant 200 priests. Guatemala City, the capital, is the only sizable city, with 293,000 residents; Quezaltenango, runner...
They've got guts." At a Paris railroad station, Italian Director Roberto Rossellini was photographed as he emerged from a train with his wife, Actress Ingrid Bergman, who will star in a French run of the witch-burning musical play Joan of Arc at the Stake, which Rossellini will direct. With them were their twins, Isabella and Isotta, nearly two and an armful for father, and son Robertino, four, who looked as if fee wished he'd never left Rome...
Halfway through, in need of a fresh character, Author Jackson invents still another Miss R., a money-loving witch named Bess. By that time Miss R. is whirling through personality changes like a shifty quarterback on a hidden-ball play, and the reader is in need of a score card...