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...about $10,000 this year) haven't made much difference in Campy's style of living. With his wife Ruthe and four children (two of them girls) he lives in a white clapboard house in St. Albans, Queens, goes in for big plates of Ruthe's spaghetti, gets to bed most nights by 10 p.m. and is up by 6 a.m.: "In my house," he says, "you got to keep regular hours. The baby, Roy Jr., he's up by then and hittin' the bottle...
...water over the ground and offer up prayers to Thi-gya-min. Early next morning, clad in bright blue, red or green skirt-like longyis and rubber bathing caps, they set out with more water for the pagodas, to wash the sacred images. Cold drinks, tea and Burman spaghetti were served at marquees at almost every street corner and gay music sounded everywhere. Pious oldsters listened to the discourse of holy men, and everywhere the Burmese splashed one another with a will. "Yee-da-paw, yee-da-paw" (we laugh, we laugh), they cried through chattering teeth every time...
...frowns on off-the-field exercise, likes to loll in bed until 10 a.m. or later. He is also fond of his food: "I don't diet. I believe in three square meals a day and I'm not ashamed to say I'm nuts about spaghetti...
...Spaghetti Is Cooked." TIME Correspondent Mary Barber watched part of the battle from a brigade command post in Fort Nestorion, overlooking Hill 1291, the day's objective in that sector. Cabled Barber: "Down below, Nestorion's main square was packed with ambulances, trucks and jeeps. In the horse trough near the spring, peasant women were washing out used field dressings and the stained water flowed over the cobblestones. In the church, the village priest was reading the burial service over eight soldiers who had died in the morning's fighting on Hill...
...Down in the river bed, trucks were lumbering through a ford and up a goat path, newly bulldozed, where 25-pounder guns had been hauled up during the morning. Toward 3 in the afternoon, the brigadier announced: 'The spaghetti is cooked and the birds aflying.' He meant that the artillery was ready and the Spitfires were aloft. On the skyline, four miles across the valley, the artillery opened up and the infantry jumped...