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...Vietnamese on how to build a viable political system. If such measures are taken, Lodge said, "I think you can clean up the provinces around Saigon maybe in two years, and if you did that you would have gone a long way toward breaking the back of the snake...
Last week there was more violence, and three more victims may have been added to the grim roster. They were two young white men and a Negro youth, all civil rights workers, missing in the murky, snake-infested swamps of eastern Mississippi, where the charred shell of their Ford station wagon was found...
...kings" speech from Richard II and the St. Crispin's Day speech from Henry V, and he really sounded like an orchestra, although he stumbled over an unbelievable number of lines. Oddly, he was at his best reading not Shakespeare but D. H. Lawrence-a poem called Snake, which is one of his favorites in all literature. But the high point of the evening came when he and Elizabeth read the 23rd Psalm. He would read a line in Welsh, then she would read a line in English, and they went through the whole psalm that...
...credited him with a fine field officer's instinct for combat. In 1957, the army sent him to the Philippines for Ranger training. At Camp Vicente Lim in southern Luzon, he won honors in ambush and guerrilla operations, gained bloody battle experience against the Communist Huks in the snake-haunted highlands back of Olongapo. At the same time, Kong Le kept wondering why he was fighting...
...exhibits at the fair, it shows how pre-Columbian goldsmiths of America beat, hammered and cast little miracles of design. For motifs they used the swamp and sea creatures that they knew best-the frog, snake, shark, turtle, crab and crocodile. These ancient masters also made the malleable metal wriggle with curvilinear life: 2-in.-thick ear plugs, nose pendants, golden mustachios that covered the mouth. They drank from gold goblets and spangled themselves with baubles that were hinged to bounce in the light. They abstracted condors into broadtailed triangles and sought symmetry in two-headed animals...