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...some of the newsmen in Saigon he was known as "Meck the Knife." His name, as it has appeared on the TIME masthead since 1948, is John Mecklin. A veteran foreign correspondent, he went on leave of absence between 1962 and 1964 to take on one of the toughest press jobs to be found: U.S. Information Chief in South Viet...
...frame. Willie obediently went on a diet, slimmed down to 189 Ibs., and seemed to have a first-string outfield job all wrapped up. Then one day, a teammate slapped him on the backside while he was trying to cut a shoelace with a knife. When the doctors finished sewing his hand together, Horton was shipped back to the minors-to Syracuse, where he hit 28 homers and drove in 99 runs...
Resnick stepped out of his Perkins Hall room for a few minutes Monday night; when he returned, he reportedly discovered a man waiting behind the door. The intruder was holding a revolver and carried a knife in his belt. He commanded Resnick to sit down, handed him a small bottle, and ordered him at gunpoint to swallow the pills inside...
...Next? In 1960, according to Pentagon count, Communist terrorists assassinated or kidnaped more than 3,000 South Vietnamese. Death came by knife, by pistol shot in the night, by bombs, by beatings, by tortures. Last year the Viet Cong assassinated or kidnaped 1,536 village chiefs or other government officials, murdered 1,359 other civilians and kidnaped still another 8,400. So far this year, the Viet Cong score is: 264 provincial officials killed and 364 kidnaped, 610 civilians killed and 3,026 kidnaped. An average of four village chiefs or other local officials are murdered or kidnaped each...
...tell them apart... By now the pupil is completely distracted thanks to a toothache, but the professor persists. His lesson, a mixture of sophistry and flights of fancy, is incomprehensible. At last, in the climactic scene, he holds up an imaginary object and orders the girl to repeat "knife" in each of the Neo-Spanish idioms. But her pain has become unbearable, she cannot obey, and he stabs her to death with the invisible knife. His triumph is complete...