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...politicians down to the Klansman next door. Snopeses pop up early in Yoknapatawpha County, but unlike most other Faulkner characters they seem to have no ancestors-at least not from Mississippi. Flem's father, the vicious Ab Snopes, wore neither blue uniform nor grey, but was a carrion crow on Civil War battlefields...
...crow with a submachine...
...were flown by the Russian crew to Paanchkhal to inspect the 70-mile road being built by Red Chinese engineers from Katmandu to the Tibetan border town of Kodari, where it connects with another highway leading to Lhasa, the Tibetan capital. Thousands of Nepalese workers using picks, shovels and crow bars are carving the road from the sheer slopes of mist-hung mountain passes. Chinese instructors patiently show the Nepalese how to operate rock drills while other Chinese clear away rocks and dirt with bulldozers; still others are busily surveying and mapping every hill and valley in a country ideally...
About 25 seedy, sleazy Congress of Racial Equality demonstrators, some of them appearing to be white beatniks, crowded in near the speakers' platform. When the introductions began, they shouted "Freedom Now" and "Jim Crow Must Go." Police moved in to shove them back, knocked several down. Others dropped limp to the ground and officers dragged them away. As the President spoke, the chant continued. His message was well suited to the unseemly scene...
...opulent 57th Street town house), with an eighth scheduled to open in Southampton this May and a Paris outlet planned for next year. Hanson owns a house in Beverly Hills and a cream-colored Rolls-Royce. But best of all he likes his office. For there, in an upstairs crow's nest overlooking a strategically trained 15-ft. mirror below, Jack Hanson is master of all he surveys, king of the castle, lord of the manor, and the busiest peeper since...