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...unreal. World exploding around us. Sit on ground taking notes. Soldiers pop up around us, fire short bursts and then sink back into brittle bamboo. Purple smoke spirals upward on north, pink on south. Rockets crash and thud. 50-cal., thud. M-16 pops. Suddenly, all fire stops and movement shifts to north. Land smoldering, wall of burning tree stumps...
...Times'? The paper's twin coup was the result of several elements. Its correspondents have been admirably persistent in knocking on the Bamboo Curtain; Lewis had been trying to get into Hanoi for two years, and from his London base renewed his pleas to North Vietnamese officials in Paris almost monthly. Another factor is the Times's undeniable prestige and influence in the U.S. Both Pyongyang and Hanoi obviously felt that they could benefit from some press exposure in the U.S. at this time, and that the Timesmen were likely to give them a favorable shake...
...Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing (pronounced Shing-Shing), took up residence at the National Zoological Park in Washington, where they were welcomed by Pat Nixon. Still too young to mate, they will live in separate air-conditioned suites, each with a 1,000-sq. ft. living room furnished with bamboo trees and plate-glass picture windows and each with a private den to escape from tourists...
Exit: The girl has fallen for someone else. The Tramp sets off, his back to the camera, his bamboo cane a parenthesis of melancholy. Abruptly, the little shoulders twitch, the leg shakes off tragedy like a cramp. The head snaps to attention. Step, skip, step-the Tramp is restored, off once more on the unimproved road to Better Times...
...outskirts of the city, I passed the new Nanking Iron and Steel Works, four-story red-brick apartment blocks near completion, and a whole series of water-conservation projects. Teams of men sang as they hefted a huge stone with ropes and tamped the earth into place. Women with bamboo baskets on yokes carried earth to build retaining walls. Schoolchildren with shovels marched in line to a day's work in the fields...