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Fantasy completely takes over when the consort, on a world tour, stops at the Backward Islands, a tropical paradise ruled by a plump old bawd of an empress who believes that her subjects should do what comes naturally. What comes most naturally is dancing, making love, and drinking; and once he gets the hang of it, the consort finds he has a natural bent for doing the same thing. He beds down with a nubile native girl named Tia and sends the royal yacht home without him. Soon three gung-ho paratroopers arrive by helicopter and forcibly take the consort...
...trouble; the ball was on the 29, and Cornell was clearly moving within field goal range. Larson went up the middle for one yard, and then Hinman tried to stop the clock by throwing the ball out of bounds. The referee, however, ruled his throw a backward pass, and Cornell was saddled with a seven-yard loss. On third down Larson swept around left end for six yards, but the Big Red was still 30 yards away from the end zone. Zogby attempted a field goal with 30 seconds to play, but it was slightly to the left...
...reasons for Pyongyang's shift are largely economic. To close the gap between North Korea's backward agriculture and burgeoning industry, Kim seven years ago launched a "Great Leap Forward" of his own. As a symbol, he picked Chollima - a legendary flying horse that could cover 1,000 ri (300 miles) in a single bound. A bronze Chollima was mounted atop a tower in downtown Pyongyang, and 11 million North Koreans stolidly set out to increase production of everything from pig iron to fertilizer. By late 1963, Chollima had begun to stumble: inadequate transportation caused foul...
...choppers crashed. Smith lost all three of his company commanders, had 24 of his 28 helicopters hit or disabled, got only half his troops on the ground and into battle. But reinforcements tried again, and in two days of short, brutal clashes, the Eagles rammed the Viet Cong backward into a holocaust of bombs and napalm from U.S. planes, finally turned the field over to the incoming 1st Cavalry Airmobile (TIME, Sept. 24), somewhat bloody but purged of the V.C. For all the hail of lead, U.S. losses were surprisingly light. The Viet Cong left 226 dead, many of them...
...PALINDROMES, as Borgmann presents them, are still more fun. Spelled the same backward as forward, they fall into several categories: palindromic words (Malayalam, evitative, detartrated); palindromic names and trade names (Mary Belle Byram, Yreka Bakery); vertical palindromes that read in reverse when they are turned upside down, either hand-printed...