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Then, on Friday, something prompted him to go his Soc Sci section at ten o'clock. He got out of his chair, put on some clean clothes, forgetting to shower beforehand (he was really preoccupied, because he had been sitting in the chair without moving for four days), and went to the section in Emerson Hall...
...allowed to accompany him on his rounds. Finally, he agreed to let Scott watch him in action. "We toured hotels and restaurants in Madrid and London," says Scott, "and he quickly laid to rest any illusion that he coddles himself. He hoofs it everywhere. His curiosity about bedsprings, shower nozzles and kitchen steam tables is insatiable." In between, there was plenty of time for talk...
...which everything has to be just so. It divides the world into good guys and bad?or, as Fielding has it, "givers" and "takers." His friends must all be givers?although as soon as they become his friends, they must learn to take as well, since he loves to shower them with thoughtful gifts: a favorite delicacy, a dozen fine Majorcan handkerchiefs embroidered with their signatures, a monogrammed cigarette lighter. For a grown man, he is wildly sentimental; every reunion is a ceremonial occasion, every farewell a moment of mourning. In between, there are Temple's affectionate letters, punctuated, illustrated...
...101st and a battalion from the Vietnamese 1st Division were brought up as reinforcements. On May 18, two battalions-all of their men loaded down with 40 magazines of rifle ammunition-tried again, and were thrown back just short of the crest in a blinding rainstorm and a shower of Communist grenades. One company commander stilled growing discontent among his men by telling them that "we are soldiers, and we have to do our job." He was scared, he said. "Everybody was scared. But we had to go back...