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...protect American smugglers against their Vietnamese competitors. One newspaper cited the case of Maj. Delbert W. Fleener, occasional pilot for Ambassador Bunker, who was convicted last year of smuggling 850 pounds of opium into Viet Nam from Thailand aboard Air Force planes. The daily Chuong Viet dismissed the flap over narcotics as an attempt by Washington to give the U.S. public a new excuse for getting its men out of Viet Nam. "Could it be," asked the paper, "that the U.S. Government now realizes that the narcotics issue may serve its policy very well...
...Follies Flap...
...showfolk talk about their operations on the Johnny Carson Show. British Actress Sarah Miles, however, didn't mind telling 7,200,000 viewers: "I had an ear job." Her ears, she said, "not only stuck out, but they had no shape at all. They used to flap in the wind." Miss Miles' now unflappable ears have given her considerable self-confidence. Asked whom she would choose to be alone with for six months, she said: "Hitler. If I had six months, I might be able to corrupt him into something of goodness...
...years in Las Trampas two logs from hill to hollowed to carry water one inside other half with icicles-very small as compliment to overlap and gravity-hanging below complete skull of a stag on a pole small birds flying so vilently they change direction with each flap of the wing eagles yes eagles, details digression
...irony avoided until once, coming down a mountain on a dirt road, saw a raven flying its own distance down with a small stream. When the water passed under the road, however, the bird faltered the air, and for that fraction of time made a tragic decision-one flap of the wings that shadowed across the car, a short glide to curve with the road down the mountain soon beyond us. Somehow, the bird following our road showed a sense of freedom from it. But what have our roads done to these creatures with their won, magical, geometrics? What...