Word: friendships
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...experience. First his combat boots were washed in rice wine from a ritual jar into which the flesh of a sacrificial buffalo had been dipped. Then, as the beast's severed head and tail lay near by, a montagnard sorcerer summoned divine spirits to witness an oath of friendship, and a rebel officer swore allegiance to Saigon Finally, to seal the pledge, two smiling girls presented Ky with a tray of cop per bracelets, and he was handed a symbolic weapon-a U.S. Army M-l carbine...
...said: "The only people who will stand by you in Asia are the people of Pakistan ? provided you are prepared to stand by them." He boated up the Potomac to Mount Vernon with the Kennedys, flew to Lyndon Johnson's Texas ranch to write his name in fresh Friendship Walk cement. Vice President Johnson had met Ayub in Pakistan earlier that year and, in a rosy, fraternal glow, saw to it that a camel driver who reached for his outstretched hand got a free junket...
Shared Blood. Park expected student disorders when his National Assembly ratified the new friendship treaty with Japan (TIME, July 2). To forestall them, the students were sent off on vacations 20 days early, just before final exams. In their absence, the Assembly ratified the pact with Japan-which will normalize relations between the two countries for the first time in 70 years -by a vote of 110 to 0. Opposition assemblymen boycotted the session...
Although Corbu became the most influential, and possibly the most irritable architect of the 20th century (TIME cover, May 5, 1961), he could only bear the friendship of down-to-earth people, such as his Monaco-born wife Yvonne Gallis, who died in 1957, and the Sardinian-born sculptor Costantino Nivola, for whose Long Island house he did murals. Mainly, he took refuge in solitude. For the past 15 years he summered in seclusion at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin-on the French Riviera. There he avoided autograph hunters in a 6-ft. by 15-ft. two-room cabin with a corrugated...
...Fateful Friendship. But to Joe's profound dismay, his daydreams do not come true. No fur-lined apartments, no nymphomaniacal millionairesses. Pretty soon he runs out of money and sells himself to a homosexual schoolboy-who takes his pleasure but then cannot pay. Too gentle to take revenge, too stupid to see what is coming, Joe sinks into demoralized destitution. But in the depths he finds a friend, a bright-eyed young cripple named Ratso, and for the first time in his life he is happy. Not for long. The cripple dies of general debilitation, and as the book...