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Though their relaxed attitude toward sex shocks some Westerners,* most visitors agree that the pleasantest thing in Laos is the Laotian people. Laotian girls have oval faces, high cheekbones, blue-black hair, shyly flirtatious eyes, and the world's smallest waists. The men are short-statured, sturdy-legged, even-tempered and given to such amiably negative remarks as "There isn't any," "It doesn't work'' and "It can't be helped." In most years Laotians catch enough fish, grow enough rice and yams and brew enough wine to allow ample time for their...
...rolled out of bed to get at his chores. After a hearty breakfast (orange juice, cereal, bacon and eggs), he left his twelve-room white frame and fieldstone house, walked briskly to the barnyard. In the early morning mist the low-lying white barn, surmounted by five giant blue-black silos, rode the frozen prairie like an ocean liner. Like a rumble of surf came the hungry bellowing of 400 white-faced Herefords and the grunting of 500 Hampshire hogs, waiting at row on row of troughs to be fed. In the barn. North stepped up to an instrument panel...
Grant Holloway is a Chicago free-lance magazine writer with "ears like wire recorders." Halfway through Let No Man Write My Epitaph, he slips out of his Lake Shore apartment to sniff at the "great beast of a city" that crouches like a "blue-black panther" in the slum area beyond Chicago's North Clark Street. His socialite wife, Wanda, watches him go: "She smiled, knowing him so well. Prowling. For the story . . . She liked him that way. He should do a novel...
From the heavens around, above and below -blue-black except for the myriad brilliant pinpoints of nontwinkling stars, the glow of the mist-shrouded earth and the hard white disk of the sun -invisible, cosmic radiation particles pierce the space capsule -and riddle the pilot -harmfully or harmlessly, who knows? By then the space traveler is weightless -an unearthly state in which he may do himself injury with normal movements of his own muscles. He cannot smoke because of fire and explosion hazards; the cabin pressure is so low that he cannot even whistle to keep up his courage...
...wear. His strength was ebbing; in close, Robby tied him up with ease. When Basilio stood off and tried to box, stinging jabs thrust him off balance. Then a vicious uppercut landed flush on his left eye. Within seconds it swelled shut. Basilio was lost behind that ugly, blue-black eight ball for the rest of the fight...