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AFTER three years of ever more furious combat, after dozens of feints and one-sided gestures toward conciliation, the U.S. and North Viet Nam finally moved in the same direction at the same time. The first half step, when it occurred, was just as swift as it was unforeseen...
...into the maelstrom of evolution." The remark reflected East German Party Boss Walter Ulbricht's fear that Dubček's government may soon cozy up to West Germany for the sake of more trade and the special hard-money credits it badly needs. The Czechoslovaks were furious. Dubček's government formally protested Hager's speech, and Radio Prague denounced "this inadmissible meddling in the affairs of a sovereign state." A second attack by Hager put a severe strain on relations between the two states, once such close allies...
...flood is in the offing, and Chicken gets his nickname from the fact that in a previous flood, he climbed to the roof with a few chickens and subsisted by biting their heads off and drinking their blood. Who will drink whose blood before this latest flood? Chicken is furious at losing the property to Lot's wife, and he has in his wallet a previously signed agreement willing it to him. Lot assigns Myrtle the task of getting that piece of paper and destroying...
Cult of Revolution. Evergreen's politics is as far out as its sex. It subscribes to the New Left roster of revolutionary heroes: Che Guevara, Castro, Malcolm X, Ho Chi Minh, Stokely Carmichael. It has published LeRoi Jones's furious diatribes against whites, mainly Jewish: "The little arty bastards talking arithmetic they sucked from the Arab's head." While not taking it too seriously, Rosset excuses black anti-Semitism on the grounds that Jewish merchants, after all, have exploited Negroes in the ghetto. "We agree with practically everything LeRoi says," explains Rosset, "except that...
...theory is not too far from the mark, but it elicits furious denials from Steiger, who keeps taunting his pursuer by phone, hanging up before the calls can be traced. Meanwhile, victim after victim is fingered by the Manhattan strangler, who blithely pops into new personae as easily as most men change ties. His disguises range from the Irish priest to a German plumber to a homosexual hairdresser. He even plays a prostitute in drag and throws in an imitation of W. C. Fields on the brink of madness. But the killer's ego is even more monumental than...