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...South Viet Nam and then served as New Delhi bureau chief. Assigned to the Beirut bureau last fall, he continues to contribute his expertise on Pakistan. He was one of the 35 newsmen expelled from Dacca on March 26, but in April he trekked from India by oxcart, rowboat, motorcycle, bicycle and bus to become the first American journalist to get back to the Eastern capital. He returned again for this week's story and, despite his having seen much war in the past, found that "this one has special horrors...
...City, Lindsay described his annual pilgrimage to the state capital of Albany to get the city budget cleared. "When I prepare for the Albany journey," he wrote, "I think of Henry Hudson, who began his journey as captain of the stately Half Moon and ended it in a rowboat somewhere off the coast of Canada...
Contemptuous. When he went to Albany this spring, Lindsay was lucky to have a rowboat. Never had the legislature been more hostile; never had Rockefeller been more openly contemptuous. As if that were not enough, militant municipal unions went on strike last week in protest against budget cuts, thereby tying up traffic, dumping raw sewage into waterways and threatening to turn off New York City's water supply. Under those crisis circumstances, budget negotiations could scarcely be conducted in the cool, rational manner appropriate for such complex issues. Instead, they were carried on with bad manners, vitriol and vilification...
...head of the company's conference table, though, he can do no better than recite his previous year's speech to the board of directors. He cannot even successfully kill his petulant wife, who laughs at him as he tries to push her from a rowboat crying, "An American Tragedy!" He ultimately realizes that he can never recover amid such macabre people-all of whom are as crippled spiritually as he is physically...
...movie deviates entirely from the novel at the end, as the Doctor and Jake throw his lover's body into the middle of a lake from a rowboat. The viewer realizes that he too has been left stranded in a rowboat in the middle of nowhere as the final words flash across the screen-appropriately, if somewhat trite: End ... of the Road...