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...your story "The Gem of the Gizmos" [Dec. 3], you forgot to mention the use of the paper clip as a surgical tool. Heated in a Bunsen burner, it provides the ideal method of releasing the blood under a smashed fingernail-better than a dentist's drill, a sharp knife, etc. It is painless (the blood cools the clip as soon as it burns through) and fast...
...Thompson smoothly stretches out the tension of a creepy bathtub sequence, followed by an explosive climax involving a booby-trapped safe. Finally, though, this who'll-do-it must be appreciated chiefly as a challenge to the ingenuity of three attractive performers, warming up goulash on the back burner...
...blackout tried everyone's resources?and few would admit defeat. In stalled elevators and trains, passengers improvised games, including one whose object was to suggest the unlikeliest partners for stalled elevator cars (samples: Jean-Paul Sartre and Norman Vincent Peale; Defense Secretary McNamara and a draft-card burner; any Con Edison executive and any New York housewife). Trapped office workers improvised candles with copies of Book Week and rubber cement...
...join a Trappist monastery, but was rejected as too young. Later, he spent a year as a student in a Vermont seminary. Since 1963, LaPorte had served as a part-time volunteer with the radically anarchist and pacifist Catholic Worker movement, to which David Miller, the jailed draft-card burner, also belongs. Other volunteers recalled him as devout and quiet, a normally cheerful youth who drank, smoked and dated occasionally...
Encouraging as it all seems, no one pretends that the fate of Laos lies entirely in Laotian hands. Escalation of the war in South Viet Nam has forced Peking and Hanoi to put Laos on the back burner, and as long as the war goes on, nothing the Laotians do can amount to much more than a political holding action. "Events in South Viet Nam will decide everything," says Premier Souvanna. Adds Finance Minister Sisouk: "For the Americans to pull out of Southeast Asia would not only be a tragedy but a disaster...