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...When they no longer need me, they will spit me out like a cherry pit," Prince Norodom Sihanouk once said of Cambodia's new Khmer Rouge rulers. He had good reason for his apprehension. As head of state during the 1960s, he had exiled, jailed or executed many of the Khmer rebels. But last week the past was officially forgotten-at least temporarily. After more than five years of exile in China, Sihanouk and his wife, Princess Monique, made a triumphal return to Phnom-Penh. Traveling from Peking with the royal family was Deputy Premier Khieu Samphan...
Lone Reporter. Schorr's manner seems abrasive. The glasses are thick, the brow is wrinkled, the voice is from a gravel pit. Hustler Schorr concedes: "I guess I'm aggressive, but I don't consider myself abrasive. I'm direct." When he is not on the prowl, he can be amiable and modest. But he has seldom been off the prowl. Schorr started quietly enough as a print reporter in 1934-seven years for minor wire agencies and five years freelancing. Later he worked for CBS abroad, mainly in Central Europe, and did not reach Washington...
Thomas Crooks had just edged into a pew, carefully placed a small brown paper bag on the seat beside him, and opened his hymn book to the morning's responsive reading. "He brought me up also out of an horrible pit." Crooks mumbled along with the dozen other people in the dark, cool chapel, "out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings...
...graduated from Harvard, gaining a bona fide Ivy League background--but at the age of 31. And the particular patch of miry clay from which the Lord drew Crooks--a poor Appalachian coal-mining town in western Pennsylvania--seems, years later, more and more lovely, not the horrible pit Crooks once...
...Elton's trademarks is pounding the piano with his feet; another is throwing his piano stool in the general direction of the audience (but actually into the pit). He has been known to dye his hair orange or pink for some gigs, to bat tennis balls into the crowd, and once in Los Angeles he hired actors to dress as Queen Elizabeth, Frankenstein and Elvis Presley and wander around the stage. Whether this represents a display of unquenchable energy, the response of a sometime wallflower suddenly encouraged to be the life of the party, or just overripe showmanship...