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People pushing 50 will find the new Post almost frighteningly familiar. Artist Norman Rockwell didn't do the cover (even though he is still active at 77), but he is on it, puffing his pipe and preparing to paint a Post delivery boy. Inside, there is an eight-page salute to Rockwell, together with a slew of the original Post's oldfashioned, gray "narrative illustrations," which made it seem as if every scene were taking place in an incipient thunderstorm. Other old standbys abound. There are reprints of Tugboat Annie and Thomas Wolfe. The bylines of Paul Gallico...
...small bamboo shack. The interior was dark except for one lamp used for lighting the opium. Sleeping bodies lay on wooden benches along the walls. I lay down on one of the empty benches and an attendant handed me one end of a long, thin pipe. He stuffed the other end full of opium. pierced a hole in the center of it, and held it upside down over the lamp. He told me to draw as hard as I could until all the opium in the pipe was burnt up. I did this and exhaled the cool, sweetish smoke...
...good will- a factor Karol ignored in his Russia 1930's comparison- the harvest brought temporarily renewed optimism, as any Venceremos will tell you. Yet the cost of the failure was staggering: serious dislocations in the economy resulted because most of the labor force was diverted to reach the pipe dream. This winter, serious food shortages were reported in Havana...
Sadat is rarely without a pipe, and enjoys an occasional glass of wine, preferably an Egyptian red called Omar Khayyam. He is a snappy dresser who favors tasseled loafers, elegant blazers and expensive British-styled suits. When he goes back to Mit Abu al Kom, though, Sadat on occasion likes to change from city clothes into the comfortable flowing galabia, the cotton peasant garment that looks like a nightshirt...
...series of college-campus pipe bombings had left Detroit police clueless and frustrated. Then a neatly typed letter turned up, naming Eileen Margaret Orr, 20, and Mark Peter Stevens, 21, as the bombers; more explosives, the letter said, could be found in the Orr suburban home. Last week police arrested the pair, charged them with a bombing at Oakland Community College, and reported finding some 20 sticks of dynamite concealed in a closet of the house...