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...preadolescents is just as devastating. The records of Saigon's Center for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery are full of case histories of childhood gone awry. A 13-year-old named True was running in the fields outside Nha Trang when he stumbled upon a fountain pen. Shouting to his friends, he placed the pen in his mouth and bit into it; it turned out to be a Chinese-made plastique bomb that destroyed half his face. Similarly, a 15-year-old named An was raiding a garbage heap at the U.S. airbase at Tuy Hoa when...
...home to Brandeis; Sue is a sensitive, Southern farm girl who joins the Civil Rights Movement in her growing knowledge that a good man is hard to find; and Don, whose prison notes record an adolescent stubbornness mellowing into militant pacifism, chooses to be a prisoner in the Federal pen rather than the army. The actual scripts, however, that Lukas has prepared to demonstrate these personal transformations are filled with individual scenes that win back for the stereotypes a convincing sense of life...
...crowd. "We had the impression the Chinese were trying hard not to embarrass us by lopsided scores," said Tim Boggan. They did not. The Chinese players won the men's games 5-3 and the women's 5-4. Afterward, the opponents exchanged gifts-matching pen and letter-opener sets for the Chinese, and "Double Happiness" table tennis paddles and balls for the Americans -and walked off hand in hand...
...usual odd jobs-truck driver, bottle wiper-were followed by a Ford Foundation grant to continue his research. Under the pen name Joseph Novak, Kosinski published two studies of Communist political theory: The Future Is Ours, Comrade (1960) and No Third Path (1962). In 1962 he married Mary Hayward Weir, the 40-year-old widow of the founder of the National Steel Corp., and Kosinski's life changed again. He began to move in the world of the influential rich, some shadows of which fall on the pages of Being There. His wife died in 1968 after a long...
...coach Jim Hutchinson received the Shaeffer Pen Award last night for outstanding contribution to New England hockey...