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...list down to 18 names. After interviewing the owners of these names, he will cut the list down to 13. He wants to interview me. After a few incoherent replies to his questions, I ask if I can return later after getting some sleep. He smiles graciously. I stagger back to my room and fall into a sleep of depression...
...silence, the sun reappears as a long, slanting shaft that illuminates only the highest peaks. Each day the light descends, until finally even the deepest valley is bathed in warmth. The ice breaks, roaring like cannon fire, and the ground explodes with color as wild flowers bloom. Big bears stagger out of hibernation. Rivers teem with salmon, grayling and char. Caribou march in long single files toward new feeding grounds. Glacial ice glitters like emeralds and sapphires. The world seems reborn...
Within Range. Cambodia, meanwhile, continued to stagger under the weight of its own battle with the Communists. Phnom-Penh, once the most carefree capital in Southeast Asia, was filled with grim and eerie rumors (see box). Throughout the countryside, the fighting was somewhat less intense than usual. Scattered clashes were reported at several strategic points within 35 miles of Phnom-Penh. Cambodian soldiers found a 122-mm. Communist rocket in a town retaken from Communist soldiers only 14 miles north of Phnom-Penh, the closest to the capital that such long-range weapons have been discovered. At week...
...Stagger and Bloat
...Fortunately, the rules call for a Friday weigh-in and a Saturday race. If an oarsman can stagger onto the scales at 160 pounds on Friday afternoon, he is then free to bloat himself and regain his strength for Saturday's race...