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Nobody will ever know what went through the scrambled circuits of Laszlo Toth's brain when he climbed over the guardrail of the chapel of the Pieta in St. Peter's Basilica and started battering with his hammer at the Madonna's resigned stone arm, the folded veil, the nose, the translucent shell of her left eyelid. But one may guess: Toth had lost all power to distinguish between an image and the reality it denotes...
Trends. Still, with 554,200 troops remaining in Asia, the U.S. pullback is hardly a full recessional-and was not intended to be. The fundamental objective of Nixon's plan is to provide a guardrail that will keep the U.S. from being pulled overboard into another Viet Nam-type involvement, yet still protect U.S. allies, and U.S. interests, in Asia. There is doubt that the guardrail would hold in a crisis, but the policy is nonetheless becoming an important reality in Asia. Among the trends accelerating as a result of the Nixon Doctrine...
...years on the stock-car circuit won 54 Grand National races-a record that few experts ever expected to see beaten. Papa Petty is now 53; he walks with a permanent limp, the souvenir of a day at Daytona, Fla., when his car hurtled through a guardrail at 155 m.p.h., soared 150 ft. through the air, landed upside down in a parking lot. Lee retired from racing in 1962, but he is still a familiar figure around the track. Last May he was in Darling ton, S.C., to watch Son Richard break his record by winning victory...
...accident occurred on the Taconic Parkway in the Berkshire Mountains. The ear went out of control and careened along a guardrail. When the guardrail came to an end, the car left the road entirely and collided with a wall of rock...
Another workman said after the accident that the scaffolding had a tendency to sway. When one of the painters started to remove a screen from a third floor window, he lost his balance and grabbed a wooden guardrail which then broken...