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...they want to get their views before world opinion. Still, crossing the lines is tricky. "The technique," says one experienced correspondent, "is to wave something white, like a shirt or a sheet, and yell 'press' in the appropriate language. Drive slowly, don't get them startled, honk in the daylight and blink headlights at night." Last week, however, NBC's Al Rosenfeld neglected the technique. Waved past a Greek outpost, he and an assistant headed across no man's land without signaling. Rosenfeld was hit in the face by a Turkish bullet. He piled...
...paintings is to hear them. They screech and honk with the aggressive dissonance of city traffic. They have the staccato beat of a pneumatic drill. The strident reds, blues, and yellows blare with neon. And the stray words that seem squiggled from a toothpaste tube onto his paintings are like the hip, harsh expletives that slum kids spew into the summer air. Davis had violence without anger, gaiety without abandon, and his paintings swing and jump with such durable joy that it is as if he had dipped his brush in some eternal fountain of youth...
...numerous. At first, it was a challenge and a sign of being off-beat. The girl who had pierced ears belonged to an elite group, whose members, rejoicing in their radicalness, felt a certain kinship to other piercees. The bond resembled that among owners of Jaguar sportscars, who honk loudly whenever they pass a confrere on the road. Also, ear piercing was a method of rebellion against parental authority. Mother, who had worn screw-on button earrings all her life, was horrified to see slivers of wood or tin dripping from her daughter's lobes...
...above black ribbons of polyethylene plastic (TIME, April 19) and the chemical spray guns have finished their hissing attack on bug and weed, the most modern cotton fields in the U.S. are likely to resound to an unexpected and old-fashioned racket. Day after day, nearly a million geese honk their way across the carefully tended farmland. In a time of rising costs and declining markets, cotton growers are showing an expanding enthusiasm for an antiquated agricultural technique known as "cotton goosing...
...figures California has long since overtaken New York to become the most populous state in the Union. Governor Pat Brown picked last week to celebrate the great occasion. The Chamber of Commerce Managers Association brightly suggested that each of the state's 9,000,000 motorcar owners honk their horns in unison on Dec. 28. But, as it happened. H-day came at minus7 in perhaps the most spectacular, horn-honking, steel-crunching traffic pileup in vehicular history...