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Always more steady than spectacular in his 37-year navy career, Sharp's presence on the Pacific powder keg is a comforting thought to his Pentagon colleagues. Says one admiral: "Sharp is a solidly trained professional. He is exactly the kind of man this country needs in the Pacific right...
Watching such vignettes in the Southeast Asian powder keg last week, Hong Kong Bureau Chief McCulloch mused that "covering Laos is like being Alice in Wonderland-surrealistic, exasperating, frequently incomprehensible but often utterly delightful." A lunch with the cover subject, General Kong Le, in his headquarters village of Vang Vieng was a study in the country's need as well as its plenty. It was served on a table covered by a red checked tablecloth "with so many holes in it that it must have been riddled by a shotgun." But no one needed to go away hungry from...
Though he is only 36, Crandall wears a sapient beard and looks like a keg with hair. When he opens his mouth, one expects to hear Tosca in native Italian. But Crandall was born in Kansas, went to Millsaps College in Mississippi, one of the better small colleges in the South. He worked as an announcer on half a dozen radio stations before going into the now-widespread talk-to-the-listeners game on CKEY in Toronto four years...
Light in the Cupola. Russell and his 18-man team of homily-grits Southerners were not in the least concerned about the slow progress of the civil rights bill. But others were, and against a lowering backdrop of powder-keg Negro restiveness and growing white alarm, a sense of urgency has begun to pervade even the drowsy chamber...
...hour), but it is vital that you refer to it as a chopper. Go to the ball games in Chavez Ravine, but leave before the seventh inning. Get a pool table, and don't give a party unless you have a mahogany keg on the patio with draft Michelob. Get a Yorkshire terrier. Learn to think. Stay out of toreador pants and stretch pants; wear Jax slacks...