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...minute dive-bombing mission over An Xuyen province. "It was Cinerama and Coney Island wrapped into one as we hurtled toward the earth at 300 m.p.h., then, glued to the seat, soared skyward," says DeVoss. The Air Force had thoughtfully lent him a pistol, knife, rope, radio, parachute and other survival items. "The high point of the day was being able to give the two airsick bags back to the supply sergeant, unused...
...Knife in the Water. Roman Polanski's first feature film. 8:30, April 28. Chan...
...sheer availability of firearms is undoubtedly a stimulus to murder. There are perhaps 115 million privately owned guns in the U.S., almost one for every male between 14 and 65. Indeed, guns are used in 65% of all U.S. killings. Twenty percent of the victims are dispatched by knife, while poison is rarely used. In Manhattan, there have been two recent cases of murder by bow and arrow, and some years ago another New Yorker attempted murder by rattlesnake. As Princess Sita observed in Ramayana, the ancient Indian epic of nonviolence: "The very bearing of weapons changeth the mind...
...Thirty Years War in the 17th century, when troops ravaged the countryside indiscriminately. New or old, wanton slaughter recalls the question posed by Nietzsche's red judge: "Why did this criminal murder?" Nietzsche's reply: "His soul wanted blood; he thirsted after the bliss of the knife...
...Company above the Arctic Circle, has its moments of old-style adventure and anthropological insight. The author is brisk, precise, modest as he tells about fighting with mean Eskimos, cajoling lazy Eskimos, foiling marriage-minded Eskimos and learning how to carve an igloo with a snow knife. Eskimos, it appears, have 33 distinct words to describe snow in various conditions from soft to firmish, "but not quite firm enough to build a snow-house." There is only one Eskimo word for all the 150 different kinds of flowers that briefly bloom in the Arctic...