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Noman spoke to the nation last week over Radio San'a, offering the hand of reconciliation and issuing a blanket invitation to "all tribes of all persuasions" to meet with him this week at Khamir, 50 miles north of San'a, in order to achieve "the one thing which we all prize over anything else: peace for the nation...
...card on which was printed a Roman numeral seven enclosed in a circle. Realizing the importance of his discoveries, Bundle started back to police headquarters. Meanwhile, in the midst of a fire in the Chem 20 lab in Mallinckrodt, a mutilated, decapitated body has been discovered in a fire blanket cabinet...
Lucy's little tousle-haired brother Linus is the strip's intellectual, but he is thrown into a tizzy whenever he loses his security blanket. "Sucking your thumb without a blanket," he confides, "is like eating a cone without ice cream." Linus is Horatio Alger in reverse: "No problem is so big or so complicated that it cannot be run away from." Snoopy, the dog with the floppy ears and foolish smile, is the perfect hedonist. He dances, skates, jumps rope, hunches like a vulture but above all likes to lie flat on his back...
...life is in the strip: the harrowing little frustrations, the countless near-misses. "I guess I'm 100% Charlie Brown. Sixty million people read about the dumb things I did when I was little." Born in Minneapolis in 1922, Schulz was dubbed Sparky (after the rambunctious, blanket-draped horse in the strip Barney Google) when he was two days old, and the name stuck. As a boy, Sparky avidly read the comics, sketched illustrations of Sherlock Holmes stories and of his own dog Spike (Snoopy's model). "He was," says Schulz, "the most intelligent dog there ever...
...more spirited cartoonists buck, kick and squirm," says a syndicate editor, and Charles Schulz bucks as much as any. He complained about his second strip when United Feature sketched in a black eye Patty gave Charlie. Recently, United objected to the Peanuts sequence in which Linus' blanket attacks the other Peanuts. "That's monster stuff," complained United Feature's President Laurence Rutman, who prevailed on Schulz to abandon eight strips. "It's not the real you." In retaliation, Schulz bought a baby blanket, drew a monster on it saying "Boo!" and sent it to Rutman. Replied...