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...four windows, but they were seldom opened. I was told that the danger from planes and spies was too great. In the afternoon, when the air was still and oppressive, I retreated to my tabletop and tried to sleep till the cool of the evening. Invariably, I lay wide awake, watching the rats scurry across the ceiling rafters or marveling at the industry of the hornets building their nests...
...seldom moved from my bed the next day. I lay on my back, smoking cigarette after cigarette, thinking about what I had seen. Weeks before in Phnom-Penh, around the swimming pool at the Hotel Royal, we correspondents had told each other that Premier Lon Nol's regime was in trouble. But we had never guessed how deeply the trouble ran. Now I had seen the beginnings of a Khmer liberation army, and it seemed to be growing stronger, fed both by volunteers and prisoners. In less than three weeks, I had seen scores of Khmer soldiers with Sihanouk...
...collect an IOU. Freelancer Fred Shapiro, for instance, was hired as a speechwriter for Arthur Goldberg, New York's Democratic gubernatorial candidate. Shapiro's credentials for the job were that he had never written a speech before, and that he prided himself on his political virginity-he seldom read past the headlines of political stories. Two weeks and two unsuccessful speeches later he quit, billing the former Supreme Court Justice for $587.50. That was in April, but it wasn't until two days after the September issue of Esquire hit the newsstands that a check...
ECONOMISTS and consumers seldom see eye to eye on the state of business, but rarely have they been so far apart as they are today. To most economists, who judge what is happening by broad statistical indexes, the signs are increasingly clear that business is coming out of an inflationary downturn into a period of gradual but steady production growth and slower price rises. To many consumers, who reason from personal experience, the economists are talking gibberish; they expect a continued combination of recession and sharp inflation. The odd thing is that, in at least a few important respects, both...
Consciously or unconsciously, man reveals his inner self in his words. In the case of a U.S. President, according to Psychological Investigators Richard E. Donley and David G. Winter of Wesleyan University, what he says is seldom as illuminating as how he says it. By looking behind the rhetoric of inaugural addresses. Donley and Winter have measured twelve Presidents, from Theodore Roosevelt through Richard Nixon, on two personality factors: their need for power and for achievement in office. In Behavioral Science magazine they report their results...