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...been in the Air Force, and they were swapping stories about how many times their fathers had been shot down. With a touch of one-up-manship, the exec finally ended the conversation by describing how his father had been killed in the Korean War. The stewardess shook her head knowingly and looked back at me. She obviously had my number...
Warming up, Dirksen waved his arms and pounded his desk. He leaned so close to Assistant Republican Leader Thomas Kuchel that the Californian was practically horizontal at his desk. He shook his head so emphatically that his carefully coiffed mane soon flew askew in a Medusaean tangle of curls. "Our outer defense perimeter started in Korea and went to South Viet Nam," he said. "That is our outside security line. Suppose it fails. It will run from Alaska to Hawaii." Thundered Dirksen, his voice now at full volume: "Let me say that I was not made a Senator to preside...
Novelist Ludvik Vaculik, who shook a recent congress of the Czech Writers' Union with these angry words, was proved right sooner than he thought; he was forthwith fired from his post as an alternate member of the union's central committee and roundly denounced by the government. Czechoslovakia's Communist regime, which for a time was Eastern Europe's most tolerant in permitting liberalization to flourish, has recently returned to a pattern of repression. It is preparing not only to discipline Czechoslovakia's "unruly" writers, but also to take back a good deal of what...
...living-room table, the priest prayerfully recalled the Last Supper: "And so we remember what Jesus said to his disciples, 'Take and eat, for this is my body.' " The consecration completed, the 24 men and women in the room kissed each other on the cheek or shook hands, as a sign of peace. While a guitar plunked softly in the background, the worshipers shared the bread and wine and sang a hymn from the Mass for Young Americans by Folk Composer Ray Repp...
...invaluable running mate. Out in the countryside, only two Vietnamese political figures are likely to be known by the peasants: Ho Chi Minh and Nguyen Cao Ky. By no means rare was the peasant on election day who, when asked if he had voted for Thieu, adamantly shook his head and said that he had voted...