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Relieved to have escaped from Saigon and amused at the oddities of American barracks life, the Vietnamese stood patiently in line to receive rice, meat stew and bread served on paper plates, and milk. In the separate huts, men and women, the elderly and the very young, Americans and Vietnamese were thrown together with no privacy. Most preferred to be outside, chatting with friends, watching children play on the swings, or strolling among the huts. "I don't feel good about leaving Viet Nam," said Mrs. Gene Till, the pretty Vietnamese wife of an American computer programmer...
Though he often still travels with his mother (while in Los Angeles, they share a modest two-bedroom apartment) and checks with her to see when his favorite dinners of short-rib stew or chicken-fried steak will be ready, he does not let her protective mantle smother him. Connors' father never joins his wife and son on their trips. In Los Angeles, Connors can usually be found at the Beverly Hills Tennis Club, unbending with Spencer Segura, Pancho's son and Connors' longtime friend, by playing endless games of relaxed tennis and backgammon and downing gallons of Coke...
Author O'Hanlon fulminates be cause he clearly loves his former coun trymen and women. He is too much the Irishman himself not to revel in the ver bal excitement of Dublin life and its "maddening, entertaining stew of provincial chauvinism." Inevitably, his book is crammed with old-chestnut anecdotes, pub gossip "laced with the in toxicating ingredient of malice," and sharp observations. Most of these, also inevitably, take a dying fall: the slipshod car-assembly center in Cork that turns out "lemons (or limes)"; those ash trays proudly bearing the Gaelic legend, Deanta sa tSeapain (Made in Japan...
Loaded down with 40-lb. backpacks, the executive hikers log about five to ten miles each day. During rest periods, O.B. leaders give lessons in first aid and wilderness survival. Each evening the group staggers into a makeshift campsite, then wearily prepares a dinner of chicken stew, Turkey Good N' Hearty or another freeze-dried delicacy...
...horrors of oldtime horse-traffic jams, railroad accidents, street crime, alcoholism, drug addiction and even home cooking. Writes Bettmann of that time: "The masses were forced to subsist on a crude and scanty diet of which tea and bread were staples, supplemented now and then by soup or stew of questionable origin...