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With a chuff of steam and a skirl of wheels, the aged black locomotive pulled out of Danang, carrying 500 passengers bound for Hue. Soon it began to climb toward the mist-shrouded Ai Van Pass. As the train reached the crest and began its freewheeling descent, the passengers relaxed-prematurely. Suddenly the rails snapped like broken rubber bands as a Viet Cong pressure mine exploded. When the smoke cleared, the passengers-fortunately uninjured-clambered wearily through the brambles to nearby Route 1 and thumbed or hiked their way into Hue. It was business as usual on South Viet...
...breasts and "actually coalesces in the terminal stages, to suggest an advanced state of measles." The mottling may spread over the abdomen, shoulders, and even the hollows inside the elbows. The labia minora become enlarged to about twice their normal size as tension increases, and turn a deeper, scarlet hue (purplish in a woman who has borne several children). The intensity of sexual response is directly proportional to this color change; in no observed case has a woman reached a deep-color phase without proceeding to a satisfactory orgasm. Engorgement of the labia minora and the outer third...
...political apprenticeship is over and she intends to run for mayor in 1967. She commented cryptically on election night that she will now have a chance to "go hunting. And I'm not saying where or with what." She admits that, around nomination time, "there was a great hue and cry throughout the city that I run for mayor...
...many Republican candidates campaigned on the right-to-work issue, arguing that the union shop was undemocratic. It was a classic blunder. Labor rose up that year, dashed Republican after Republican down to defeat for supporting 14(b), and changed the complexion of the U.S. Congress to a liberal hue that has not faded since...
...Jerry A. Rose, to whom Wolfkill told his story and who wrote this book between other assignments in Asia. Rose went to South Viet Nam in 1959 at the age of 25 to teach English at the University of Hue, stayed on to become a part-time correspondent for TIME and LIFE, a contributing editor for the Saturday Evening Post and finally, a special representative to the office of the Prime Minister. He and Wolfkill were close friends...