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...mask the army supplies you with, they have a little metal box of amyl nitrate. It's to be used if you've been exposed to syanide or another blood gas. It comes in little ampules and your supposed to break these ampules and then put them in the eye pieces of your gas mask. It smells something like banana oil and it's about a 15 to 20 minute mind-expander. I don't know how much gas warfare there is in Vietnam--they don't tell you--but they make damn sure you know how to use your...
...they teach you how to mask in nine seconds. Like if you were to holler "Gas" right now I would automatically reach for my mask and would have a little moment of fear when it wasn't there. It's another one of those reactions I was talking about. So I don't know how much gas there really is, but I do know that not many guys can mask in only nine seconds. Most have sort of this fate attitude, at least I do. If I'm going to go, I'd rather go happy, sniffing on my amyl...
...Roman Catholic German's lifelong distaste for Berliners and Prussians. His weak lungs also kept him out of World War I; by 1917, he was Lord Mayor of Cologne, his birthplace. That year plastic surgery following an auto accident froze his facial features into the cat's mask the world was later to know so well...
...Mask of Apollo, Renault...
FICTION 1. The Arrangement, Kazan (1 last week) 2. Capable of Honor, Dairy (3) 3. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton (2) 4. The Captain, De Hartog (5) 5. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (4) 6. The Mask of Apollo, Renault (6) 7. The Birds Fall Down, West (8) 8. All in the Family, O'Connor (7) 9. Five Smooth Stones, Fairbairn (9) 10. Tai-Pan, Clavell...