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With one hand on the handle, the PLA axe is very useful, and they know it. With two hands fighting for it, life becomes hazardous for the men of the PLA. When the axe finally has to fall, they want to be sure that it doesn't chop off their own heads
...settlement became possible only after the publisher agreed to chop out as many as 10,000 words from the 300,000-word manuscript, and Manchester consented to turn over tapes of Jackie's candid remarks to him during a ten-hour interview. The tapes will be sequestered for 100 years before anyone will be allowed to hear them...
...ever touched. Playing solitaire on the night before his record attempt, Campbell turned up the ace and queen of spades in succession. "Mary Queen of Scots had the same combination before she was beheaded," he remarked. "I know that one of my family is going to get the chop. I pray to God it isn't me." And there he was at 8 o'clock next morning, clambering into Bluebird's cockpit, clutching his lucky Teddy bear, Mr. Whoppit. Then he revved up Bluebird's 4,520-lb.-thrust Orpheus jet engine and shrieked off across...
...after Jackie spelled out her objections, Goodwin and Editor Attwood met in Bobby Kennedy's 14th-floor apartment at United Nations Plaza to see what could be done. "What Jackie wanted," said one publishing executive, "was simply to chop the twelve points out. She wanted to use a meat ax. Instead, Goodwin agreed that a scalpel could be used...
Uncle Ho's. In Paris the exiles can gather in any one of some 200 Vietnamese chop-chop houses, ranging from a Communist bistro called Uncle Ho's, to a hangout called the Gathering Place of the Wise Men, which, like the others, reeks with the home flavor of nuoc mam, the fish sauce used on most Vietnamese dishes. More than half the men are married to French women, many hold French citizenship, few seem inclined to return to Asia. "They have their families here and are safe from the horrors of war," says a former Ambassador...