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...bolt of lightning and a deep voice on the road to Damascus. In a more American epiphany, Hess was converted by the deep-throated roar of a motorcycle. Many middle-aged men take up cycling -as Hess did in 1965. Mostly what they get is kidney trouble, pavement burns and a chance to act out a few fantasies. As Hess tells it in Dear America, he got secular religion. The need to repair the machines he wrecked led him to welding and, finally, to working as a welder of trucks and construction equipment. "It was there, under trucks, inside buckets...
...before, Lam Son Square had echoed with the sound of carbines, M-16s and rooftop machine guns. Now the square was quiet, the pavement under our feet baked to cooking temperature by the morning sun. I glanced at my watch: it was 10:42. People peered through iron gates that had been pulled shut because of the 24-hour curfew. Their eyes were easy to read. "You're leaving us," they said...
...structure-Pisan Romanesque architecture, for instance, in which the complicated inlays and bands of black-and-white marble conspire to deny the overall shape of a fagade. This crystallized itself for her one day in Venice in 1960, as she watched a violent rain squall sweeping across the inlaid pavement of a piazza. The drops, filming the surface with water splashes, broke up the stone pattern, returning it briefly to chaos and instability. Could this breakup not be given an equivalent as painting? It could; and that sense of disturbed equilibrium within what looks like a rigid serial structure...
Food was no problem. Marketplaces were filled with green vegetables and raw meat, peanuts were piled high on the pavement on Le Loi, the busiest boulevard in Saigon, and exotic aromas bubbled up from the hot food stalls in front of Saigon's cathedral. Young women crowded the lobby of the Mini Rex Theater every matinee to see Brigitte Bardot in Boulevard du Rhum. Roving photographers armed with Polaroid cameras still tried to hustle a few piasters out of foreign correspondents they mistook for tourists. The piaster rate, perhaps the best war barometer in town, shot up from...
Early one morning last February, Eli M. Black, 53-year-old chairman of United Brands Co., created a major mystery by smashing a quarter-inch-thick glass window in his Manhattan office and plunging through it to his death on the pavement 44 floors below. Black's relatives said that they knew of nothing that might have driven the executive, who was a descendant of ten generations of rabbis and a former rabbi himself, to take his life. Business associates also were puzzled-though they noted that his company, a gangling conglomerate, had lost $46.8 million...