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...their work. "A straight furrow was all a man was left with." Thompson is typical of his generation. He starved during a childhood spent gleaning beans and wheat and picking up road-mending stones from the fields-at 50? for 24 bushels. He witnessed bloody horror as a machine gunner in World War I. Afterward, he was one of a few who helped organize a farm workers' union when the bad times came. Despite the union, the economic gap between landowner and laborer today in Akenfield is about what it was in Victorian times. With land prices above...
...effect on either them or the war. "This business is meant to pacify the folks at home," commented a military policeman in Saigon. "We're going to stay here for a long time." Pfc. Jimmy Poston, born in Guam, a 20-year-old draftee who serves as an assistant gunner in a mortar platoon, is also unfazed. "All the political speeches and stuff don't mean anything when you're over here," he says. "Boy, you know they were talking about Viet Nam when...
...Leverett gunner John Ballantine kept his team one pace in front of Winthrop the entire fourth period with pin-point accuracy from the floor. Winthrop is still in first place, six points in front of Adams House...
...Tommies under his command is hot-tempered, brawling Gunner Danny O'Rourke, who defies ennui not with ambition but with fury. Nicol Williamson portrays O'Rourke as a sardonic, 20th century Ahab, ever raging against a malevolent creation. He sees barracks boredom as proof that God mocks man's aspirations, a daily confirmation of the absurdity of it all. Infuriated by Evans' platitudes, O'Rourke responds by plunging his fist into a stove and slowly squeezing the heat out of a burning coal...
...darted up to block the embassy car from behind. Two men in green fatigues got out of the Toyota and ordered Mein from his car at the point of a submachine gun. He stepped out, then broke and ran. There was a shout: "Kill him! Kill him!" The submachine gunner squeezed off a burst at Mein's back. The ambassador fell in the middle of the street and died within moments...