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...this Reston duly reported the next day in the Times. He summarized the communique and even mentioned the guards outside the mansion. He waited until the fourth paragraph to drop his bomb...
...versions... reported by this and other correspondents." (This was a key provision, since it stipulated that Congress need not specifically approve the security organization's use of force against an aggressor.) At the end of the story Reston highlighted his triumph by printing the text of the uninformative three-paragraph communique...
Scrambled Brains. Midwest campuses are now fairly humming with homicidal ingenuity. One Chicago student got a long letter from the Bursar's Office, discussing his tuition payments, didn't realize that he had been trapped until the last paragraph: "By the way, you have just been handling paper impregnated with contact poison-phenyl-hydrazine substitution products. This poison should by now be spreading through your system and you will lie groaning on the floor. This is your hunter speaking. You are now dead...
Flann O'Brien, the man with three names, might have enjoyed a last posthumous joke in the last paragraph of his brilliant book. He cites a German who was hung up on the number three: "He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular vein with a razor three times and scrawled with a dying hand on a picture of his wife goodbye, goodbye, good-bye." Even the Irish don't joke about the Trinity except in dead unearnest...
...year, then wait with dramatic desolati "My fate depends on a couple of people sitting in an office 2,000 miles away," says a Yale senior. Vanderbilt Senior Robert Thiel worked three days on his application to Yale, including a five-page essay and translation of a long English paragraph into German and French, got a one-sentence rejection. He spent five hours on his Stanford application, got a two-paragraph form rejection. It took him only 15 minutes to apply to the University of Virginia, where he was accepted...