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...gentleman carefully unsheathed his knife...
...first time in my whole six years of higher education, I've had a chance to talk to a professor man to man," recalls one Salzburg graduate, accustomed to Europe's academic formality. Opinions flow so freely at Salzburg that a Yugoslav seminarian once pulled a knife on an Italian. By contrast, a Norwegian fellow spotted a German at whom he had thrown a hand grenade during World War II, and they became intellectual buddies...
...foundations of insurgency in northeast Thailand. Among primitive hill tribes such as the Lahu, Peking has sent native cadres trained in China to spread the word of a new messiah. One savior is already at work among the Lahu, claiming to possess a "magic hammer, magic rope and magic knife" with which he can kill all enemies, even if they number "as many as the sesame seeds in three baskets." Peking's most formidable source of subversion is the 15 million "overseas" Chinese, who dominate much of the trade and commerce of non-Communist Asia. In Malaysia, Thailand, Laos...
...girls' favorite diversion. The usual ploy: "I saw what you did and I know who you are." It is a dubious icebreaker at best, but downright troublesome when addressed to an unstable suburbanite (John Ireland) who that very evening has carved up his wife with a kitchen knife and buried her body in the woods. To the girls he sounds "sexy ... a swinger." They phone again...
...have made an experiment," wrote a French infantry sergeant from the trenches of World War I. "Two days ago I pinched from an enemy a Mauser rifle. Its unwieldy shape swamped me with a powerful image of brutality. I broke the butt off, and with my knife I carved a gentler order of feeling, a mother and child." A few days later, on the afternoon of June 5, 1915, an other German weapon put a bullet through the Frenchman's head. Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, not yet 24, was dead...