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...that high-ranking officers had absorbed the worst of it. But mistreatment was clearly widespread, and often brought on by the prisoners' steadfast resistance. As Navy Captain Jeremiah Denton said, "We forced them to be brutal to us." Even those who considered their treatment comparatively mild, such as Air Force Captain Joseph Milligan, often suffered enormously. Provided totally inadequate medical attention, Milligan treated-and cured-a badly burned arm by letting maggots eat away the pus, then cleaning off the maggots with his own urine...
Though the soap opera The Secret Storm usually generates only a mild zephyr at the mailboxes of CBS, more and more of the program's 12 million weekly viewers have been writing in with each installment. They have been aroused by the still platonic romance between a Roman Catholic priest and an attractive widow. Last fall Laurie Stevens, a program regular, met a newcomer, Father Mark Reddin. Ever since, the producers and writers have nursed the romance along, consulting with the Archdiocese of New York. The tantalizing question: Will the curly-haired, cleft-chinned cleric abandon his first love...
...Lakes. Swelled by abnormal winter rains and lashed by strong winds, the waters of Lake Erie are three inches above the previous record set in the flood-disaster year of 1952. Michigan State authorities have already computed the damage of an imminent deluge: $112 million. It has been so mild in Wisconsin that a recent snowmobile championship race in Eagle Rock had to be run on sawdust. In New York City minimal snowfall meant a budgetary windfall: millions of dollars allocated for snow removal were never spent. Meanwhile, Lander, Wyo., this winter froze solid at an average...
...property of objects. It was the stuff of which they were made. And space itself was less a describable structure-which it was for Picasso or Braque-than a color-filled void in which the eye immersed itself. Years later, Matisse summed up the difference in one mild and cryptic phrase...
...dark-haired woman from Woodstock, Vt., he made his choice from the fiction rack. A glance at the titles before the salesman slipped the two slim tomes into a bag seemed a clue. If the titles did not exactly tell a tale, they hinted at one. Steele, ever the mild-mannered, wild blond-haired, slight-of-limb, mightily-muscled, bespectacled young hawk, tucked his new bought copies of Deliverance and On the Road into his duffel and skittered through the traffic to the ski room in Wigglesworth. In a few moments, he and coach Peter Carter would be headed...