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Does the postman deliver the mail a month late and not even look remorseful about it? Never mind, he kills snakes in Honor Tracy's backyard, and once, when she was giving a party, he bicycled three miles to bring her ice. Are Spanish nightclub acts and zarzuelas sometimes performed by stuttering septuagenarians, Goyaesque dwarfs, and faded, toothless beauties? It doesn't matter. It's more fun to watch the audience, such as one old man who was ogling the girls and groaning "with delight as an old dog does when his ears are fondled." Are Spain...
Marina took a backyard photo in the spring of 1963 that showed her husband arrogantly posing with his rifle and a holstered pistol. In its investigation, the Warren Commission...
...increased effort on America's part leads to even more aggressiveness by the Chinese-supported Communists, where will it all end? I don't see how a limited supply of men can defeat the almost inexhaustible Chinese supply in a conventional war in China's own backyard...
...idea. "I saw the hypocrisy of China long before I decided to defect," he explained. What had disillusioned him was Mao's treatment of intellectuals, who had been asked to criticize the regime and were then denounced as traitors. Equally repellent was Red China's abortive "backyard furnace campaign" of 1958, in which the government cynically asked every neighborhood to smelt steel for the greater industrial glory of the country, then never used it. Said Tung: "I realized in 1958 that the Communists were willing to waste lives and energy for their own purposes...
...lucrative Manhattan law practice (among his clients: Joseph Kennedy), worked as a presidential adviser to Joe's son Jack, but saw his fortunes collapse last year when he was convicted of failing to file federal income tax returns from 1956 through 1960; by drowning, in his backyard pool; in Harrison...