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...Squad cars arrived at the hotel, but police were still trying to decide how to clear the area when, according to Anthony Peters, who manages the British Airways desk, "there was an almighty explosion. The whole place went black. When I looked up, the impression was of pieces of carpet burning...
...friend who was jealous. Still, Garrett was respected and popular. On April 5, the staffers gave Garrett a birthday party. The next day, a Sunday, Yuba City firemen got another call, went to Garrett's apartment, and found his body, doused with some inflammable liquid, burning on the carpet just inside the door...
...again when he describes Eudoxia, a city that could be a parable for Calvino's novel of parables. Eudoxia is a city seemingly without form, but whose true shape is preserved in a certain intricately woven carpet, just as Calvino's empire preserves some semblance of our own. According to an oracle, "questioned about the mysterious bond between two objects so dissimilar as the carpet and the city," one has a god-given form, and the other is "an approximate reflection, like every human creation...
...inhabitants of Eudoxia, of course, assume that the carpet is ideal and harmonious, while the city is the approximation. But the traveller from Venice sees the other possibility as well...
When the new U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, Charles Whitehouse, arrived in Bangkok last week, something less than a red-carpet welcome awaited him. Student radicals had festooned the airport with banners reading BASTARD FORD, GET YOUR TROOPS OUT! and FORD, YOU DESTROY INTERNATIONAL LAW. Thai government officials denounced the Pentagon's dispatch of Marines and helicopters from the U.S.-operated Utapao airbase to the rescue of the American merchant vessel Mayaguez as "madness"; Prime Minister Kukrit Pramoj reacted with what he first described as "displeasure" and later as outright "fury." At week's end an emergency Cabinet meeting...