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...junk. Books of baseball statistics, ten-year-old issues of Mad, and half-finished cigarette packs. Crap from phases of my life so distant that I might as well be in a stranger's house. Was this how I lived? (I look around and see at least a dozen pencil sharpeners.) God, who knows anymore...
Larger Gamble. Actually, anyone with calendar and pencil can calculate that the U.S., even at the present rate of withdrawal, will probably be down to a "residual" force level of about 50,000 troops by mid-1972. Nixon said for the first time last week that a Korean-type residual force will not remain in Viet Nam. The central question is when and under what conditions the U.S. will withdraw the residuals...
...Switzerland last week by working on a new novel that may be called Transparent Things. The new work, he explained to the New York Times, is being composed on his usual "scrambled index cards, which I gradually fill in and sort out, using up in the process more pencil sharpeners than pencils." Nabokov described his success at beating the biblical quota of 70 years as "a feat of lucky endurance, of paradoxically detached will power, of good work and good wine, of healthy concentration on a rare bug or a rhythmic phrase. Another thing that might have been of some...
...antipollution efforts last week as he stood on the White House lawn watching two TWA jets take off from Washington National Airport. As a Chicago-bound 727 soared over the Potomac, the ship's Pratt & Whitney engines gushed black smoke, smearing the blue sky like a grease pencil. Two minutes later an Indianapolis-bound 727 with the same type of engines followed suit-but without trailing any visible wake. "That's quite a difference," Nixon beamed to TWA Chairman Charles C. Tillinghast Jr. standing beside him. "That's very good...
...34th Street Greyhound station. Upstairs they had a place where you could make pictures for a quarter... Dean made a profile shot and looked coyly-around... Dean was wearing a real Western business suit for his trip back to Denver... blue with pencil stripes, vest and all-eleven dollars on Third Avenue...