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...Blind & Deaf." Much has been made of the disagreements between Washington and Saigon, particularly over the bombing of Haiphong and recognition of Viet Cong representatives at any future peace conference. Actually, the differences matter little. Lyndon Johnson has ruled out the first-for the time being, at least-and Hanoi has made the second academic. More important is the fact that the leaders of the two governments met face to face for the first time and came to understand their mutual aims. Most U.S. officials were convinced that while past Vietnamese leaders might have given short shrift to the social...
...those who question the feasibility of fighting a war and building a nation at the same time, Johnson had singularly acerbic words. "They belong to a group," he said, "that has always been blind to experience and deaf to hope...
...cartoonists, it was all a matter of sharp blacks and whites, a picture etched in the vitriol of their trade. Johnson was a cranky old codger blind to criticism and deaf to dissent; he was a foolish tourist taken in by the grass skirts and leis of a Pacific tourist trap...
...Casey Joneses who have spent as much as 20 years red-balling the route from Saigon to Hue. Engineer Tran Chan Cha, 46, has steamed the Danang-Hue run since the days of the Indo-China war, has been blown up so often that today he is nearly stone-deaf. Engineer Nguyen Tran Lo, 48, has been ambushed some 50 times, wears a Buddhist good-luck medallion under his faded blue uniform. When Lo's yellow and green diesel rumbles north from Saigon's Chi Hoa marshaling yard, his wife lights candles before an altar adorned with...
...long in coming: 27 years. The design was spoiled and it sorely strained the patience of the man who was dedicated to the idea that a well-constructed narrative should draw to a swift and orderly close. At his seaside villa on Cap Ferrat, going deaf and blind, Maugham complained bitterly at the way time's slow hand was writing his last chapter. "I am sick of this way of life," he said. "I want to die." Earlier this month, he sank into a coma following a stroke. The 91-year-old heart beat six days longer...