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...Highlands, is believed to support six regiments of North Vietnamese regulars as well as innumerable Viet Cong guerrillas-a total of up to 20,000 men who are kept busy raiding and reconnoitering along the border. A key base is tucked away in Cambodia's "Parrot's Beak," just 40 miles west of Saigon, which also harbors one of the several jungle hospitals established by the Communists...
...small private study a few steps down the hall from his ova! office. Heavy green curtains keep the sunlight out; the phone is muted to reduce noise. Here, under a pair of frontier paintings and a wooden eagle with "E pluribus unum" on a riband streaming from its beak, Johnson studies reports, chats with reporters and staff members. In this womb with no view, he is at ease, cheerful, convinced that the country and the world are in tolerably good condition. His judgment is reinforced by the cables and memos that reach his desk. From a sheaf of papers...
...British blockade prevented the import of finer metals), orthopedic corsets, bird cages, croupiers' roulette rakes, ornate medieval shop signs, kitchen utensils, 3,000 keys, 700 padlocks, 600 door knockers, and more than 100 pairs of scissors, including one shaped like a pelican with the blades forming its beak. Coffee mills designed to grind the precious beans in the 17th century, when Madame de Sévigné purportedly scoffed that "Racine will pass-like coffee," bear little resemblance to the streamlined models sold in France today, but their shape is basically the same. A craftsman's implement bears...
Particles and Field Department. A paper caricature of Snoopy, the mutt in Peanuts, had ears for wings, rear paws for tail assembly; since it was unflyable, it was suspended from a Kleenex parachute. Australia was represented by a long, beak-nosed glider. "It will probably fly upside down in the Northern Hemisphere," predicted the Qantas executive who sent it to the contest. The only direction it flew on three successive flights was straight down under...
Just as a falcon reaches its prey, it cocks a fist and lashes out; then it rolls over, "binds" to the stunned bird with its talons, and gives the coup de grace with its razor-sharp beak. If it is perfectly trained, and the load is not too heavy, it will carry the kill back to its master like a retriever...