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...Vance was a leftover World War II DE with popgun armament and an arthritic engine room, decked out as a DER (Destroyer Escort, Radar) and dispatched to help keep track of junks along the Viet Nam coast. Arnheiter, who became her new skipper at Christmas time 1966, was another sort of updated archaism. Machinery bored and confused him. He flunked out of West Point before squeaking into-and through-Annapolis. But he was a champion debater and his head was stuffed with nautical heroes and hero worship, as well as fine sea-fighting phrases ("Seek out, engage, destroy...
Barbie's rival Dawn stars this year in a beauty pageant-a mini-Miss America contest complete with bathing suits, evening dresses, a dinner-jacketed escort doll named Gary and a jeweled scepter all on a pink plastic stage. "It is a part of Americana," explains Jack Jones, a spokesman for Topper Toys, which manufactures the pageant. "We are constantly seeing things that are based on beauty and talent, and the child wants to be a part...
...Spandau district in the British sector. The shoulderless roadway is so narrow that no gas or electric lines can be installed: though it is the coldest part of the city, petroleum for both light and heat must be trucked in. Nonresidents must travel the dirt road under British escort, because Vopos lurk just off the roadway in case anybody accidentally "invades" East German territory. Ten years ago, the Vopos so harassed and frightened a young Eiskeller boy whenever he bicycled out to meet his school bus that he finally quit going to school. The British army solved the problem...
Bloustein emerged from the gymnasium accompanied by a police escort. Many of the students, restricted by New Brunswick police in riot gear, yelled "Sieg Heil" as he left the ceremony...
...typically French resort for the well-to-do where the guests nurse their hypochondria with daily doses of mineral water and gossip. At the baths, Mother's attempts at strict motherliness break down under close quarters, and Laurent asserts his maturity by taking on the role of her public escort. His pride is deflated when she leaves him for a two-day stay with her old lover, and Laurent retaliates by dressing up in her clothes and mimicking her conversations with the man. His confidence bounces back only when she returns in tears and he can, as her confidant, comfort...