Word: mouthfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Cong and a number of Ranger wives and children killed. The older boy was pinned to the ground and -as the Rangers call it-"taken for a swim." His jaw was forced open and five gallons of water from a rusty old can gradually poured into his mouth. The youth gagged and screamed, but refused to talk, even when prodded with a rifle butt. The water treatment was more frightening than hurtful; at the end of the day, the still-silent boy was fully recovered and able to march three miles out of the area with his captors...
...Fine Arts Theatre, by contrast, has decided to show good movies, even at the risk of a whacking great loss. Currently they're sponsoring a modest Guiness festival: Tunes of Glory, The Ladykillers, The Man in the White Suit and The Horse's Mouth. Of course, the Fine Arts may not be able to keep it up (the Telepix has already had to shut down). But while you can, don't miss the Guiness Festival. The Fine Arts' movies are worthwhile; and their courage is admirable...
...vacation. A nurse at the Preeceville Hospital told him to take the baby to Yorkton, 91 miles away. On the road, says Derhousoff, "I began to realize it was a race with death." Three miles from Yorkton, the baby went limp in his mother's arms. Derhousoff tried mouth-to-mouth breathing, but the baby was dead on arrival at the hospital...
...many campuses, the most painful losses were blessed not only with brains but also with a warm human touch. Dart mouth's outdoor-loving Paul Sample, 65, one of the first U.S. artists-in-residence, was fittingly no abstractionist, but a celebrator of human figures in the Brueghel tradition. Once the heavyweight boxing champion of Dartmouth ('21), where he "slept through" an art appreciation course, Sample went on to paint prizefighters, New England landscapes and memorable watercolors of the U.S. Navy in World War II. Marjorie Hope Nicolson, chair man of Columbia University's English department...
...native ocean the sea lamprey is not particularly numerous, but ever since it appeared in Lake Erie in 1921, having worked its way up the Welland Canal past Niagara Falls, the repulsive eellike creature has been swarming in the lakes. With its round, suckerlike mouth lined with concentric rows of small, sharp teeth, it makes its living by attaching itself to the side of an unlucky fish. Its teeth rasp a hole; its powerful saliva corrodes the fish's flesh and keeps its blood flowing freely. Many fish die of a single lamprey attack...