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Imagine Don Quixote with a sheaf of body counts on all those windmills. Then reflect on the degree of rage generated the last time your wife or children used up all the hot water and left you aching for a bath. Triangulate, and you begin to get a fix on the plight of the U.S.S. Vance under her commander Marcus Aurelius Arnheiter, U.S.N...
When Dory emerged from the hospital, she carried a sheaf of lyrics that turned out to be the beginning of a new career. They unmistakably expressed her own feelings: they told what it is like to lose your mind, to talk to imaginary people, to consider incest and suicide. Set to her own deceptively light tunes, sung in a breathy voice and gathered in an LP album titled On My Way to Where, they sold 25,000 copies. A second album followed, which doubled those sales. A third, just out, is selling even faster. Dory has written a musical about...
...last week had in many cases to make choices that might have left a Univac smoking. No fewer than 1,297 candidates were vying for 159 seats in the often rambunctious Lower House of the National Assembly. In one Saigon district, for example, voters had to sift through a sheaf of 81 ballots, each printed with a candidate's photograph and symbol, and choose five to seal in a little brown envelope, which then was dropped in a ballot box. In a number of areas, moreover, voters who wanted to register antigovernment sentiments found that balloting was not only...
...Viet Nam, but some Vietnamese already seem old hands at the more devious electoral arts. To back up complaints that the presidential race was rigged against him, erstwhile Candidate Duong Van ("Big") Minh and a number of disgruntled province chiefs gave U.S. officials several copies of a ten-page sheaf of instructions stamped "Top Secret." Thieu's government, they said, had sent the documents to the country's 44 provincial governments earlier this year. Whether the documents are authentic or not, they have already played a significant role in the election by providing an acceptable reason...
Agnew replied that by his reckoning, 80% of the media "are after me and the Republican Party." He was prepared with a sheaf of press clippings illustrating what he clearly thought was unfair and vituperative comment about him by the press. Many articles contained partisan statements made by Democratic National Chairman Lawrence O'Brien and other top Democrats, which Agnew argued had been accepted as fact by the papers that printed them. He was especially incensed by a front-page story in the previous day's New York Times reporting that a majority of Governors at Sun Valley...