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Many of the vignettes claw at the skin without reaching the heart. A few do both. There was the camp guard who became irritated at the sight of a little boy holding an apple. He swung the child against a cement wall and bashed out his brains. Then he contentedly munched the apple. The theater comes to be haunted with the screams of the tortured. The stench of death so invades the evening that the playgoer is often closer to choking than to crying...
...when a new young faculty couple stops by for a nightcap. "Give your coats and stuff to sourpuss," snarls Martha, and the foursome is off on an orgy of truth-and-consequences that lasts until dawn. They slosh down a superhuman amount of booze, blurt family secrets, swap partners, claw the flesh away from old, still-festering wounds...
...bets are down: the U.S. is relying more heavily than ever on college education to shape its destiny. To get into college, kids claw for high marks even in grade school. Parents scratch for dollars, plunge into debt. State taxes soar. Yet how the bet comes out depends on solitary teachers in secluded classrooms?and the number of bored, hostile and inadequate college teachers adds up to something between a serious concern and an outright scandal...
...Guest's gadgets. On a 15-ft. pipe base not unlike the landing gear of a small helicopter, CURV mounts four long red ballast tubes for depth control, three electric propulsion motors, lights, sonar, film and TV cameras. Controlled from the surface, it can clamp a detachable claw onto objects up to 3 ft. wide, then back away leaving the claw and a buoyed line attached. Though it is normally used to retrieve spent torpedoes, Guest acted on a hunch and ordered CURV flown out from California...
...endurance test at Sebring, Fla. The Ford forces worried about the Sebring course itself. Though Ford's new, 475-h.p. Mark II prototypes looked like world beaters when they finished one-two-three in February's Daytona Continental, Sebring demands more than mere speed; it is a claw-shaped, 5.2-mile maze of airport run ways and interchanges that has 13 corners (including seven 90° turns, a hairpin and a double S) and 25 gear changes per lap. "Our cars are too heavy for this track," complained Ford's No. 1 driver, Ken Miles. "The Chaparrals...