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...week, Taipei's newspapers, both government-controlled and independent, had been giving extensive coverage of a U.S. Army court-martial. Robert G. Reynolds, 42, a balding and meaty U.S. Army master sergeant, was charged with the killing of a Chinese intruder in the backyard of his home eight miles outside Taipei. Reynolds contended that the Chinese was a Peeping Tom whom he caught spying on his wife one night last March while she was toweling herself after a shower. He had gone after the man with a 22-cal. pistol, the sergeant testified, had shot him only after...
...attack on the corruption which, under Congress Party rule, spread through the Kerala state government like chickweed. Optimists argued that this kind of competition would be a healthy influence on the Congress Party. "This idea." commented the Hindustan Times, "is no less foolish than keeping a cobra in the backyard to keep the lazier members of the family on their toes...
...Throw a Chestnut. Progressive moderns will cast a cold eye on a man who moons for the time when a Dodge car ("if your family happened to own a Dodge") was the best there was, who recalls the wonderful sensation of running smack into wet sheets hanging on a backyard line ("Do that with an electric drier!"), and well remembers that one important use for a phonograph was to see how far the turntable could throw a horse chestnut. Smith knows he does not have a chance to prevail in the golden age of the child psychologist. He is simply...
...doesn't the older generation stop worrying about us "teenage rebels" and start cleaning up its own backyard? I just got through watching a Senate investigation committee questioning Dave Beck, and it really turned my stomach. This clown is making a farce out of the committee, the Government and the American public. How in the world did a man like Dave Beck ever get in the position of president of the Teamsters in the first place...
...heard the mermaids singing each to each. The particular blonde mermaid who obsesses him is a girl only glimpsed behind a window. For Matthew Ligne spends most of his time observing the creatures-married couples, tree surgeons, enterprising alley cats-in the little closed-in world of his backyard. As he watches her from behind a curtain, she becomes a half-real apparition every man has known: "She was the girl seen for a moment on the street, or in a bus, in the park or in the train, anywhere that made her unattainable . . . Her one important quality...