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...dirty word by any means, but a form of farewell and best wishes considered far more profound and more affectionate than other, more ordinary phrases. It has the special distinction of being called "the five-letter word." It is also called the mot de Cambronne because General Cam-bronne, when asked to surrender to the British at Waterloo, anticipated America's General McCauliffe by some 132 years and replied: "Merde...
...George Bender was in mid-sentence when Florida Democrat Spessard Holland reminded the Senate that it was time to adjourn. Responded Vice President Richard Nixon : "The point of order is well taken." He banged down his gavel and the members of the 84th Congress scattered to take up their cam paign cudgels...
...advertising director of TIME'S international editions, William Stone Honneus spends a good third of his time traveling. Wherever he goes, he takes his two Contax cameras and keeps them clicking. Boston-born Bill Honneus has a mission with his cam eras, and he goes about it with the zeal of a Johnny Appleseed. In each country he visits, he devotes every spare moment to a photographic report of little-known cultural aspects of the land, plus pictures of any new ideas in advertising, merchandising or manufacturing. Among his business friends around the world he always finds interested audiences...
...juggling act with four themes in the air at all times: 1) an epic of the soil, 2) a love story, 3) a study of an ex-G.I. reorienting himself to peacetime life, and 4) a rough-and-tumble western. Taking the empty-boxcar and hobo-jungle route, Cam Johnson, the novel's hero, beats his way back to the wheat-belt town of his childhood. Buffalo Coulee is Our Town on Central Standard Time, "a rundown county seat started by French voyageurs, half-breeds and Sioux . . . cut up into prairie lots by the boomers of kiting towns...
Tilling another man's land, Cam finds his own roots. But he loses his restless heart to the boss's pretty young sister-in-law Millie. She is plagued by the memory of a previous affair, Cam by the bitter knowledge that he sits too far down the farmer's table to reach for Millie's hand. Their romance is not so much star-crossed as double-crossed, and Cam has to call on both his hobo and Pacific jungle lore to win an eye-gouging barroom brawl with his chief rival. Cam...