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World War II ended for Shoichi Yokoi, 57, only last year when the former Japanese imperial army corporal was found hiding out in the jungles of Guam. Now a prosperous tailor in Nagoya, Yokoi brought his new bride Mihoko, 45, back to the island for their honeymoon. Visiting his cave hideout, a favorite spot with tourists these days, Yokoi asked: "How could I have wasted all those years in this dirty hole?" Trapped in the jungle for a couple of steamy hours because of helicopter trouble, Yokoi muttered that he simply "hated the looks of the jungle" and couldn...
...cabin and conducts random searches, the daughter finds herself tracking ancestors more distant than her father. She comes upon what appear to be copies of rock paintings among her father's papers, then decides these atavistic scrawls are original visions, uniting her father with the first cave painter, his archetypal self...
...Tooth Merchant, Sulzberger's knowledge is very much in evidence, but so is a distinct sense of humor. He presents a slippery, multilingual Armenian named Kevork Sasounian, who discovers the original dragon's teeth (sacksful of them), which have been lying in a cave in Asia Minor since Cadmus' and Jason's time. What to do? Why, sell them as potential shock troops to the highest bidder in the cold war world of the 1950s...
...that is too powerful and complex for him to convey: the isolation he laments throughout the novel finally cuts him off from the reader. There should be more than just echoes of Nellie. Perhaps sometimes the sealed resonance of the style (reading the book is like probing through a cave) could put people off, making them wary of contrived profundity, of too imposing a persistence in what the author is trying...
...book, written with New York Times Reporter James T. Wooten, Herbert described how Major James Grimshaw, then a company commander, coaxed a group of suspected Viet Cong out of a cave, adding that he had recommended Grimshaw for a Silver Star never awarded by the Army. Grimshaw told Wallace that the incident had not occurred and that Herbert had never recommended him for a medal. In the program's most dramatic sequence, Grimshaw appeared in a New York studio to deny-in Herbert's presence-the charge that the Army had ordered him to discredit the book...