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...drinkable water, sleeping on rib-gouging ground-not to mention the horrors of pitching a tent in a wind. Nowadays, however, the compleat camper can drive right up to the lakeside or forest glade where he plans to spend the night and immediately cook supper, take a shower and bunk down, regardless of the terrain or weather...
Ingeniously improvising, the prisoners of La Santé rig up dummies with movable limbs to fill their places at lights-out. One man stands watch at the cell door with a periscope fashioned from a toothbrush and a shard of mirror. A piece of a metal bunk serves as a digging tool. Two stolen medicine bottles filled with sand make an hourglass to time the long, seemingly hopeless task of chipping through concrete sewer walls and treacherous rock. On the afternoon of the last day before the escape, Gaspard is suddenly called to the warden's office. Two hours...
...polls, anyone who was Vice President eight years and ran for President should run well in polls. I should.* Nothing unusual about that. This business about me stepping up my schedule is bunk. My schedule was set in June. I'm making one speech a month. I have time for only very few press interviews. But I'm turning down literally hundreds of invitations to speak, and I hate to turn down the ones from colleges. I've gone to no political meetings in 1963 at all. If I was really interested in running, would I turn...
...around a campfire, sing sad Laotian songs or dance the graceful lamvong, while Kong Le, holding two pet hamsters in his lap, looks on. His possessions are few: a desk, a footlocker, a transistor radio (gift from the U.S. ambassador), and five locked briefcases, which he keeps under his bunk. Occasionally he unlocks one to take out not confidential papers but a handkerchief and a pair of socks, and then carefully relocks...
...this talk about brains and dames in space is bunk, said Astronaut L. Gordon Cooper, 36, back for a home-town celebration in Shawnee, Okla. "If there had been a scientist on my flight, I don't think we would have gotten him back." As for the ladies, said Gordo, "to date there have been no women-and I say absolutely zero women-who have qualified to take part in our space program...