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...rebellious army officers the previous July, which had left him partly deaf. Haggard and exhausted, he received large daily injections of vitamins, hormones and morphine. Recalls Ernst-Günther Schenck, now 81, a physician who was in the bunker to the end: "He looked like a man carrying a mountain on his shoulders. He was hunched, drawn into himself like a turtle. His face was a mask, gray and yellow. His glaring eyes were bloodshot, with large dark pouches from lack of sleep. His left hand, holding his glasses, kept trembling and banging against a table. He pressed his left...
...point last week in the Los Gatos area, the exhausted strike teams, called in from 45 California fire agencies, decided to dig in and turn back the fire along two mountain-ridge roads. More than 150 fire engines and crews numbering in the hundreds lined the paths. "This is where m we're staying put, we hope," said Tim Exline, acting fire chief of the town of Corte Madera in Northern California's Marin County. "We're going to make a helluva stand." Home after home was saved during the night. Said one man whose house remained standing: "Have...
Protesters became wild enthusiasts when Coke reversed itself. "I was ecstatic when I heard the news," said Libby Lavine, a Michigan dissident who had launched a national letter-writing campaign. "Thank God they realized what a mistake they made." In Mountain View, Calif., Coke Activist Wilson threw a party in the sawdust-covered back room of a hamburger restaurant. The drink of the night? Old Coke, from Wilson's 20-case stash...
...Foxes were also supposed to be magical and troublesome. My grandfather used to tell me of a day he was walking along the 'beast path' of a mountain, a path between villages that foxes were thought to frequent. My grandfather was carrying a bento, a box lunch; foxes were known to love bento. Walking along, he suddenly heard the sound of straw shoes trudging in the sand behind him--sarrah, sarrah, sarrah. My grandfather looked back and saw what appeared to be a peasant girl in a dress, a shawl and sandals. But foxes were known to wear such disguises...
...involved with Modernists like William Carlos Williams, the Beats, and then the Black Mountain poets like Olson...