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...isolated places provided such opportunity for the talented ones. And through a community's celebration of their deeds, a lasting human attachment is forged. Lyndon shined shoes in front of Maddox's Barber Shop, hoed the weeds in the town's yards for a dollar, debated, rang the church bell, and played first base on the vacant lot across the creek...
...fueled debate on how agents manning the microphones and tape recorders were spending the holiday. "Imagine the poor devils down at the KGB sitting listening to all the parties tonight and not a drop to drink," said one Western diplomat, raising another glass. A few minutes later the phone rang and the host answered. He heard no voice-only the unmistakable pop of a cork and the glug-glug pouring of champagne. Then the callers, anonymous as ever, hung...
...courtyard of New Delhi's vast President's House last week, an Indian army band stood smartly to attention. As the national anthem rang out in the crisp winter air, Indian Army Chief of Staff General Sam Hormuzji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw stepped forward to the presidential dais and saluted stiffly. Then India's President V.V. Giri ceremoniously handed Manekshaw an ornate silver-tipped baton. With that, the military commander who masterminded Pakistan's humiliating defeat in the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war became the first Indian field marshal in his country's history...
...thought he then takes up is arresting: "We slept, in the dark, sweet exhaustion after love, for hours in near oblivion." What's this? Read on: "It was no time for the telephone bell, but it rang. And rang. As if a fishhook had caught in the back of my skull and I was reeled upward from the nourishing dark, and at last I heard it, reached for it, angrily." Spillane Agonistes, but what is it all about? Well, someone has called to say there is a live vampire to be interviewed. The caller was overstating the case...
...offering them a 20% bonus in the amount of floor space now allowed them under the zoning code. So far this year, four new theaters within office buildings have opened in Manhattan's theater district-the first new legitimate theaters in the area since 1928. One, the Uris, rang up its curtain on the Via Galactica debacle. But in the same building, the 650-seat Circle in the Square already has a list of 12,000 subscribers for its first four-play season of classics...