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...Lest Phnom-Penh's stunned residents should think that the worst was over, the Insurgents circulated leaflets warning that the shelling would continue. At week's end intelligence sources reported that Insurgent howitzers had been moved to within killing range of the capital's crowded center...
...Julio dominated the conversation. He would begin answering my questions even before they were half-stated, unable to wait longer lest I say something that might cast a shadow on the life of this, his pueblo. "No," he said proudly, "we have no trouble with leftists here. We are good people in Morochata, no Communists or atheists." Another glass for our guest, he signaled to the woman when he noticed I had emptied the pitcher. A second, and then a third glass more, despite all of my protestations as I felt myself going a bit dizzy. The room was beginning...
...slender, dapper man, so vain that he refused to carry a wallet or even a pocketful of change lest unsightly bulges spoil the line of his bespoke suit. More of the truth about Samuel Goldwyn was revealed by his actual appearance than by his popular image as the archetypal movie mogul-ignorant, tyrannical, malaprop-spewing...
...story has a catchy beginning: "Ferocious swarms of man-killing bees are buzzing their way toward North America." The second curt paragraph fairly shouts in terror: "They have already smashed their way through Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina, Bolivia and Peru." Lest the tension become unbearable, a third paragraph offers relief: "But don't panic. It may take ten to 14 years before the bees hit the U.S." This rather anticlimactic tale could well be a metaphor for the paper that carries it in its first issue, appearing on newsstands this week. The tabloid weekly National Star is arriving with...
...those whose behavior or ideas society finds troubling. They note that psychosurgery is being widely used in Japan to calm down hyperactive children. They also observe with alarm the tendency of some school physicians to recommend drug treatment for these schoolchildren. Others, on a more philosophical level, are concerned lest the neurosciences succeed in erasing the factitious Line between "mind" and "brain" and reduce man to a collection of neurons...