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...until 5 a.m. Bureaucracy also takes its toll of leadership. Brigadier General Le Van Kim, a top strategist, is occupied by administrative chores; last week one of his staff's chief projects was requisitioning three typewriters. Near by, General Dinh flopped back in his chair, groused that the pile of paper on his desk grows higher each...
...LETTERS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, edited by Andrew Turnbull. "Our lives have come crashing down around us like a pile of trays," Fitzgerald wrote to his friend Edmund Wilson. It is during these last sad years that most of the letters were written, and they show courage and humor in the face of every kind of adversity...
...Bumper harvests have gorged Midwestern elevators, and millions of bushels of corn and sorghum have just been dumped on the ground. In Hannibal, Mo., the corn is higher than an elephant's eye. Smack in the middle of lower Broadway lie 57,304 bushels of corn in a pile two stories high. The U.S. has lately sold corn to Hungary. Would Russia like some...
...back stretch, one pacer stepped into the wheel of an opponent's sulky, stumbled-and in an instant the track was littered with horses and drivers. Only two entries managed to skirt the pile-up and keep going. The crowd sat stunned as attendants rushed onto the track to administer to the writhing animals and cart an injured driver off to the hospital. But when the track paid off on the two that finished and voided tickets on the six fallen horses-all legitimate according to the rules-horror turned to unreasoning anger...
...christen an idea, jazz musicians invent slang, admen and politicans go for novelty-promising labels ("New Fab," "New Frontier"), art critics pile on prefixes and suffixes ("post-abstractionism"). But it is theology, slicing its concepts fine, that seems to need new lingo most and best knows how to create it. Plain words, knighted with a capital letter, take on reverent meanings; Greek and German syllables, in numbers from two to six, are joined and sent out to intimidate the outsider...