betrayals of war. Marra's language is rich in imagery and depth of meaning, as this passage demonstrates. The context of this quotation is that Sonja's sister, Natasha, has decided to leave Sonja and the hospital and to strike out on her own to an uncertain future:

"She marched down the service road away from the city, toward to border, on the trodden path of some fifty thousand previous refugees. Where would she go from the camps? Turkey, Armenia, or Azerbaijan most likely, but she would rather go to China or Hawaii, a country where no one could speak Chechen or Russian. She wanted to hold foreign syllables like mints on her tongue until they dissolved into fluency."(Page 332)

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Ivan M. HOFFMAN, Appellant,v.John W. GARDNER, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare,Respondent.
No. 18221.
United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.
Dec. 20, 1966.

James A. Stemmler, of Stemmler & Stemmler, St. Louis, Mo., for appellant and filed printed brief.
Robert J. Koster, Asst. U.S. Atty., St. Louis, Mo.  (at that time) for appellee.  Richard D. FitzGibbon, Jr., U.S. Atty., St. Louis, Mo., was with him on the brief.
Before VOGEL, Chief Judge, MATTHES and MEHAFFY, Circuit Judges.
MEHAFFY, Circuit Judge.


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Claimant, Ivan M. Hoffman, a resident of Webster Groves, Missouri, sought social security benefits based upon self-employment earnings by reason of his own and his agent's material participation in the production and management of production of farm commodities upon two farms he owned in Ringgold County, Iowa.  The year involved