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Down the gangplanks of the first rescue ships to reach Guam filed thousands of refugees who had fled the Vietnamese coast in small boats-barefoot, poor and bandy-legged, bringing little more with them than the soiled, flimsy clothing they wore, carrying infants and small bundles of belongings. They were...
When Richard M. Ketchum, a farmer in Dorset, Vt. (pop. 1,293), rose at his customary 5 a.m. one day this month, he could hear a cow bellowing in pain. Ketchum, who left his job as a Manhattan book editor five years ago, hurried to his barn and minutes later...
Few writers can get away with first-degree malice as well as Perelman: "I drew a deep breath, brushed a small, many-legged Arab off my sleeves and went down to unpack." Most of the other lines, though, could have been written for Groucho Marx and perhaps were: "I was...
A question arises about the way Fuller should sing the line "hearts of stone, heart of fire" which Hilarion, the hero, sings to his beloved, Princess Ida. Everyone pauses for a moment. Krag, Fuller and Gratto discuss various interpretations and finally compromise with Krag saying, "Emphasize the note on heart...
Time Inc. Editor in Chief Hedley Donovan and Mexico City Bureau Chief Bernard Diederich interviewed Echeverria at Los Pinos, his official residence in wooded Chapultepec Park in the heart of Mexico City. "No longer is the President's residence a show place of expensive imported European furnishings as it...