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...remember an afternoon I spent in Viedma Hospital, the chief medical facility in Cochabamba. The buildings that make up the hospital had been converted from the manor house of a plantation owner at the time of the Revolution. Now its plaster walls looked as though they might crumble momentarily. I sat in one of the examination rooms as a doctor was setting a cast on a broken leg. I watched as he examined the bandaged leg of the girl on the bed in the center of the dimly-lit, sullen room. She was young, about 19, and her pretty face...
...Atlantic solo, has long avoided public life, emerging only to promote conservation causes. Last week both met with TIME Correspondent William McWhirter. The occasion: Getty had just endowed a $50,000 prize through the World Wildlife Fund, for outstanding service to conservation. The place: Getty's vast Tudor manor, Sutton Place, 25 miles from London. Its spacious gardens and lawns are surrounded by double fences covered with barbed wire and are patrolled by plain-clothes guards along with 25 German shepherd attack dogs. McWhirter's report...
Vita Sackville-West, whose memoirs make up about half the book, grew up in an Elizabethan manor house larger, she liked to point out, than most palaces; if she'd been a man, she would have inherited it along with one of England's oldest titles. Instead, she became a writer and served as the model for Virginia Woolf's amazing Orlando, who danced his way through history and changed sex with the centuries. Harold Nicolson, who married Vita, was an equally blue-blooded dilettante with dozens of books to his credit. Together, they shared an aversion to the middle...
...takes one to know one. Speaking at Briarcliff College in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., Journalist Tom Wolfe, 42, chided lawyers on both sides of the Watergate witness table for being impenetrable prose artists. For example, "Samuel Dash, a professor of law, I believe, says, 'Was this his own volitional action?' When translated, he really means 'Did he want to do it?' " As for New Journalism itself, Wolfe wasn't abandoning the Kandy-Kolored circumlocutions that had made him famous, but he claimed he was never going to talk about them again. Or as euphuistic Wolfe...
...burn, settlements to destroy, opponents to torture, people to kill. There were thousands of refugees from other countries to catch and send back. Factories and farms were in the hands of those who worked them, and the generals meant to give them back to the old managers and manor lords. The poor people of Chile had tasted self-government, in the places where they worked as well as the Senate House, and the generals meant to teach them that self-government is for those who leave the rich alone, that democracy does not include sovereignty over the privileged, that freedom...