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ONCE UPON A TIME, on the planet Cronk, Lords Nietzsche and Namath spoke unto Archie and Edith and told them, "Lo, this planet is full of evil and we shall destroy it. Build thou a rocket ship and send thy child in it and he shall be a saviour to the planet Earth." And Archie and Edith did as the gods commanded. Cronk was annihilated and the blue-haired infant arrived in America, discovered and adopted by an elderly and kindly couple, Franklin and Eleanor...
...agents are often outwitted. Farmers on the U.S. side of the river sometimes put out empty boxes at sunset. Mexicans swim the river at night, pick okra in the early morning when it is fresh, then swim back home. The farmer returns at midday and, lo, his boxes are full. A Mexican labor manager, who hires the workers, arrives later in the day for his pay. Says Lomblot: "The farmer gets cheap labor, the Mexicans keep from starving, and everybody's happy but the border patrol...
...twelve, caught mugging an elderly man, was placed successfully at a part-time job in an old folks' home instead of being sent to a correctional camp. Says Brill: "We want to demonstrate that the system is not doing the job too well. We want lo shou them how it can be done beuci...
When one of our group asked his guide about a nondescript gray building next to a children's playground downtown, he was told only that it "belongs to the government." In fact, it is Hoa Lo prison, the notorious "Hanoi Hilton," where captured Americans were held. Today it serves as a jail for common criminals. Another visitor noticed on sale in a shop a stack of pocket-size packages of Kleenex, obviously liberated from a U.S. Army PX in the South. His escort explained, "That is merely a souvenir from Ho Chi Minh City [as Saigon has been renamed...
...course, we thought, the Academy always has flirted with these stabs at social relevance. But lo and behold, this new mood of reflection and self-criticism seemed to be translating into intelligent choices. Jason Robards, for his role as Washington Post managing editor Ben Bradlee in All the President's Men pulled the Best Supporting Actor prize from under the long nose of heart-strings favorite Burgess Meredith (who, we must conclude, kissed away all his chances of redeeming respectability when he played the Penguin in television's "Batman" series...