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...sulk had turned off his radio set. When Vientiane noted that radio contact had been broken off, the government assumed the worst. As for the Communist "invasion" itself, that story apparently originated when two battalions of North Vietnamese gathered near the border one dark night, set up an eerie howl and fired their weapons in all directions, touching off blind panic at the Laotian garrison in the nearby town of Nonget. It all brought memories of July 1959, when Laos cried invasion but could not produce a single Viet Minh prisoner when the U.N. sent an inspection team...
...much of this one) and winds up with the latest chic spoof of Truman Capote based on a New York Times Book Review section interview ("I am about as tall as a shotgun . . . I think my eyes are rather heated") or the Beowulf of the Beatniks, Allen Ginsburg, whose Howl turns into Squeal...
...most parts of the world, the authors report, death gives warning of its approach. Boards creak, bushes rustle, dogs howl. In Poland, according to one old superstition, when a man discovers a white spot underneath the nail of the little finger, left hand, he knows he's had it. When death is near, most societies require the presence of close relatives and a religious functionary. In Tibet, a lama must be there to pluck a hair of the dying man's head so that the soul can escape through the root-hole. In Turkey, a hoca (holy...
January 24: President Bunting receives letter from Mrs. Nixon asking whether residents of Moors Hall won't be disturbed by the noise when she and Mr. Nixon move in. "You know," she writes, "children and dogs follow Dick home at night--and the dogs do howl...
...government can be called a philosophy. The Republicans offer a government that speaks only when spoken to; whose method of operation is that of reaction to stimuli; whose policy toward strangers is to set up a Neighborhood Protection Association; whose policy toward enemies is to slap and howl when stung and to exchange insult for insult; whose policy at home is to throw the dogs a crumb when their barking becomes too loud. The Democrats, on the other hand, offer the promise of systematic programs to meet the needs that eight years of non-government have neglected...