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...door with a painted American eagle plaque hanging above it. The vehicle is only momentarily stalled, though, just below the steep incline of road that rises through Updike's nine acres. It will arrive, some time soon, just as surely as scholars, journalists, graduate students and the idly curious have been tracking down Updike's past for years. They make pilgrimages to Shillington, Pa., where the author was born and spent his first 13 years. They then proceed to the old stone farmhouse outside town where he and his parents moved in 1945. They find his mother Linda...
...accused man was shot to death on the spot. The guards then killed the other prisoners with bullets and bayonets. On several occasions, the guards have simply led prisoners to an isolated spot in the battle zone and killed them. When the guards returned to camp, they informed curious army officers that they had suddenly found themselves behind enemy lines and could not have returned safely with the Iraqis. Said one Iranian army officer: "We usually can't stop the guards because they have the support of the clergymen at the front...
...describe my own feelings as the meeting approached. Without being melodramatic, perhaps I can draw a parallel to the attitude of many servicemen who go into battle, or the feeling of some of my shipmates and me while we served in the submarine force. There was a curious fatalism about the process. Much of the pain and trepidation comes when the original commitment is made, and one has to accept the prospect of serious danger or failure. Subsequently, each passing day can be enjoyed with a sense of thanksgiving that one is spared...
...historical hedge is curious. "One of the finest ..." Is it possible that Norfolk produced some other talent that elected to hang around Main Street or stay down on the farm? Can it be that somewhere in the great Midwest there is a native-born comedian who opens a meeting of the Jaycees with seven minutes of stand-up comedy, then brings on the other members of the chamber to sit on a sofa and spin out their schemes and notions for promotion? Is there, somewhere, another Johnny Carson...
...workman and roamed the tunnels freely to avoid the winter cold, most in traders are less systematic. Vandals have occasionally used the tunnels to gain access to University buildings, robbing coin machines found in the basements, says B&G official Norman Goodwin. Most of the entrants, however, are simply curious students. "It would appear that the tunnels remain a continuing challenge to undergraduates," notes Tribble. Break-ins usually come in fits and starts--a small rash of entries followed by six to eight quiet months, he says...