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...complex. But on the Mexican border, tactics have regressed to old-fashioned simplicity. The authorities are now using dogs to sniff out U.S.-bound marijuana. Smugglers, in turn, are using the weapons of another age; they now shoot small packets of pot across the Rio Grande by bow and arrow...
Students supporting the cause of the farm workers are meeting again tonight at 8 p.m. to organize picket lines and distribution of petitions at the Catholic Student Center, 20 Arrow Street, opposite Adams House...
...military action since seizing power. A 5,000-man force, borne by trucks and civilian buses, set out to clear a 50-mile stretch of Route 6 to Kompong Thorn, whose overland links have been cut for months. Only 17 miles along Route 6, which stretches like a muddy arrow through the countryside's monsoon-flooded paddies, the force ran into heavy enemy resistance at the hamlet of Tang Kauk. After losing 19 dead and 124 wounded in an eight-hour firefight, the government forces fell back to regroup. Closing in, Communist sappers blew up bridges in front...
...boneless are of a flying arrow...
...uses darker but equally vigorous color, and a modeling that has the violence of a flung dishcloth or a snapped rope, to create a figure whose superhuman solidity bends light around it. That same year Matisse painted Le Luxe I. The difference between Luxe and Nu Bleu is the arrow of his creative consciousness: toward massed composition, flat surface, simplified color and, above all, a mood of subtly altered consciousness, which from then on became a major Matisse characteristic. He turns the viewer on to an exaltation, whether ice-cool or abandoned, like the joyful seriousness that perfused public ritual...