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...their villages and resuming the role of ignorant peasants who have seen nothing and heard nothing. The regional troops remain long enough to cover the withdrawal by ambushing rescue columns, mining the roads, littering the jungle trails and footpaths with concealed and deadly panjis-sharpened, poisoned bamboo spikes that stab through the soles of unwary pursuers...
True, the Sox committed two errors yesterday, but the fielders had it in the clutch, and, as is popularly stated, if you haven't got it there, you haven't got it. Schilling, for instance, pulled a rock in the middle innings, but came up with a great stab and throw on Willie Tasby in the tense ninth frame...
Billy Jim Layton's String Quartet in Two Movements is a more complex and venturesome work. Moevs's lines are always aware of their direction; Layton's stab this way and that and hover with despairing trills and tremulos through long, stirring passages of static progression. The brutality of the quartet's chords and textures is not only searing but tormented: their writhing raises questions quite beyond Moevs's solid ideas. To call this powerful expression "romantic" is meaningless; only the term introspection recognizes the heaviness of the music's human implications...
...Delhi's Lok Sabha (lower house of Parliament), where one opposition critic has accused Nehru and Menon of ordering India's border guards not to fire on the Chinese invaders. When, at last, Menon was forced to acknowledge the extent of the Chinese aggressions ("a stab in the back"), he nevertheless continued to pussyfoot when it came to finding a way of forcing the Chinese to "vacate their aggression." Explains Nehru, ever fearful of a war he might not win: "You have to think of the next step...
...Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to opt out of the competition. His announced reason: disgust with the lobbying and self-promotion increasingly expected of Oscar seek ers. Said Scott: "I take the position that actors shouldn't be forced to out-advertise and out-stab each other." - A literary lode of remarkable proportions was brought to Manhattan by Mary Welsh Hemingway, whose pursuit of the unpublished works of her late husband Ernest took her from a Havana bank vault to the back room at Sloppy Joe's saloon in Key West. She collected a possible four...