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Tibet, according to the script, is a land of few but salient features: yaks, prayer flags, monks, and declining population. Yaks especially. Tibetans plow their fields with yaks, eat yak meat and cheese, light their lamps with yak butter, and drink fifty cups of yak butter tea a day. Yak is also the country's chief export--its fur makes Santa Clause beards. Lowell Thomas Jr. adds significantly now and then, "Yes, it's those old yaks again...
...young Israeli farmers who labor, gun in hand, in nearby desert settlements, the Gaza strip is an intolerable threat to their lives and lands. To the Egyptians patrolling its long salient of indefensible dunes, it remains a symbol of Arab defiance against unconfessed defeat. Behind the 20-inch-wide furrow that passes for its frontier, 219,000 Arab refugees squat in sandy squalor, existing only on U.N. charity and staring balefully across the border at the slopes now green with Israeli corn...
...Trials. What had been the motive for the murders? Robbery? Sex? Sheer perversity? No one could say, and everyone had a different theory. Most of the salient evidence had been trampled underfoot on a muddy road more than two years before. What was left had been talked to shreds in months of contradic tory testimony. On the eve of his summing up, the prosecuting attorney was struck with laryngitis and had to rush off to the hospital. The presiding judge himself threw up his hands. "I've seen a lot of trials in my day," he began-and could...
Tickets have gone up again!!! Aside from any consideration of the caliber of the games we will witness, we would like to make a few salient points concerning the raised prices...
...clear that they were anxious to keep on talking, if only to blame the West for the impending break. They had their bait ready in military maps. Though political talks were deadlocked, the Communists might tempt a new French government to keep talking by yielding an acre here, a salient there, on the tried & true pattern of Panmunjom...