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...quite. Poulin's Troop 416 is agonizingly unique, its membership drawn exclusively from the Hilltop School for retarded and deformed children. Each Friday morning the redoubtable patrolman dons his red bandanna and scoutmaster's cap and takes charge of 15 of the most heartbreaking youngsters in all of New England. One lad has only half a face, another is strapped into a wheelchair, several others are schizophrenic; most have an unfavorable prognosis. During one meeting, a boy who could not talk until Poulin formed the troop reads haltingly through the Scout oath, then breaks into happy shouts...
...murders. Marlowe says Frazier told him that he broke into the Ohta house and was "incredibly upset" to find what he thought was an animal-skin bedspread there (actually, it was a fake fur). Frazier was also highly infuriated that the ostentation of the Ohtas' $250,000 hilltop house was despoiling nature. "It blew my mind," he told Marlowe...
...outposts turned over to Saigon last week was Charlie 2, a barren hilltop four miles south of the DMZ. Last May, when it was still the home of 500 G.I.s, a single Communist rocket slammed into one overcrowded bunker at Charlie 2, killing 30 and wounding 32 inside...
...along with the state, which in a totalitarian system like China's is the source of all rewards -and all punishment. After all, says one 30-year-old party-educated intellectual who recently fled to Hong Kong, the Chinese peasantry has always been like "the grass on the hilltop"-ready to blow with the prevailing political winds. The winds, it must be conceded, have been generally favorable. Despite such Mao-inspired aberrations as the Great Leap Forward of 1958-59 and the Cultural Revolution, the country is now relatively stable. Jobs are available, the yen is firm...
...Mougins, a hilltop town five miles and 50 years away from Cannes, Mayor Rene Pellegrin became the first official anywhere to win re-election on an anti-Rolling Stones ticket. The Stones, pained by the gigantic British tax bite, decided to settle down in France, and sent emissaries to shop around for suitable villas. What shocked staid Mougins (pop. 7,000) was the five-member rock group's request for Roman orgy-size baths that would accommodate six or eight at a time. The progressive, Rene Avelli met his Waterloo when he declared that Mick Jagger & Co. were welcome...