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Piper sit thee down and write in a book that all may read-So he vanished from my sight, And I plucked a hollow reed. And I made a rural pen And I stain'd the water clear And I wrote my happy songs Every child may joy to hear...
Talk we did about politics, my family, my views on the war. As they were preparing to go, I impulsively snatched up a journal that I had been keeping and showed it to them. Their reaction was surprise: "The soldiers permit you pen and paper?" But when I explained what it was and they had paged through it, they nodded their approval. They were especially interested in a few small poems I had written, including a verse about one of my guards, a young North Vietnamese soldier...
...Washington? Washington?" "Torch," I replied. "Tors, tors," they all repeated, unable to form the difficult English ch sound with their mouths. I laughed and shook my head. "Not tors. Call it lamp. L-a-m-p." I depended on them for my every need: food, water, cigarettes, paper and pen. These they provided in abundant supply -almost too abundant. The meals originally came at a rate of five a day: two in the morning, then lunch, a hefty afternoon snack, and finally dinner. "Tumtum one of the Khmers said, slapping my fat stomach. Then, slapping his own rock-hard middle...
...knows the baron doubts him for an instant. That he was in Newport at all is testimony enough to his determination-and wealth. Until 1962, the ballpoint-pen magnate had never even heard of the America's Cup. His sailing experience scarcely went beyond weekend cruising. But then he saw a Paris Match story on the 1962 races, was smitten by the majesty of it all, and decided to challenge for France. To learn about 12-meter design, he bought both contenders in the 1964 competition: Britain's Sovereign and the U.S.'s Constellation, Designer Olin Stephens...
...board has adopted some controversial proposals designed to make it difficult for merging companies to show an instant increase in their profits by the stroke of an accountant's pen. The most important reforms apply to a popular method of accounting for mergers known as pooling of interests. In pooling, an acquiring company writes the assets of another firm into its books at their original cost rather than their present value. Many conglomerates have later sold off a portion of such assets at a high price and reported the difference between that and the original cost...