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...Cong sometimes seem to prefer even to their newly acquired modern amenities. Not long ago, an American patrol near a 1st Air Cavalry base in the Central Highlands came across a monster crossbow hidden in the jungle. It was cocked at the sky, ready to shoot a six-foot spear into some unsuspecting chopper...
...scale in several categories and the contents are summarized.) "He knows how to say things," a colleague remarked. "Most people will tell you someone is 'well-rounnded.' I remember Freddie once writing that a fellow he liked who was strong in only one or two areas was 'spear-headed.' It turned a possible criticism nicely into praise...
...final act at Manhattan's old Metropolitan Opera House resounded to an anvil chorus performed by wreckers and an anguished lamento from civic-minded spear carriers who had campaigned to save the old firetrap as a city landmark. But the house, which for 83 seasons had provided an echo chamber for virtually all the world's great voices, was sort of a wreck already, with no rehearsal space, some acoustical dead spots, a dusty stage that choked the singers, and a dingy exterior. Besides, the Met, which moved last September to its new $45 million Lincoln Center home...
Thus, as Wieland interpreted the Ring cycle, Valhalla would be Wall Street, the heroes Siegfried and Siegmund self-sacrificing astronauts, the temptress Gutrune a mythological call girl, the god Wotan a wheeler-dealer politician, his wife Fricka everybody's nagging mother-in-law, and the spear-carrying Valkyries teen-age Beatle fans. Richard Wagner would have adored it, insisted Wieland. After all, no one despised the old Wagnerite purists more than Grandfather, who delighted in shocking admiring visitors by greeting them at the door on all fours and yapping like a fox terrier...
Harold Holt is a Pacific man. Indeed, his favorite pastime is diving under the Pacific with snorkel and wet suit to spear fish or enjoy the submarine scenery. Often enough, that scenery includes one or another of his sheilas-in-law-the beautiful wives of his three stepsons. The Sydney-born son of a theatrical manager, Holt was a prize essayist and cricketer at Melbourne University, came to the Australian House of Representatives in 1935 and became a faithful supporter of Sir Robert Menzies during World War II. Like most Australians, Holt enlisted at the outbreak...