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...whole western section of the DMZ was alive with North Vietnamese troops, elements of Ho Chi Minn's ill-fated 324th Division, which had been driven out of South Viet Nam last month by the U.S. Marines' Operation Hastings. Intelligence reports indicated that the 324th was no stranger to the area; rather than risk running the gauntlet of air reconnaissance and allied strongpoints along the Ho Chi Minh trail, the division had actually infiltrated into the South two months ago, moving straight across the forbidden...
Like Oswald, who, in the words of the Warren Commission, "was profoundly alienated from the world in which he lived," Speck was from childhood a stranger to all, filled with strange hates. Recalled a Dallas teacher who taught Speck in the eighth grade: "He seemed sort of lost. I don't think I ever saw him smile. Kids who sat near him often asked to be moved." The next year Speck dropped out of the ninth grade (the same level at "which Oswald quit school...
...organized chaos. Schulberg, wearing chinos and loafers, sits on a sofa. Young Negroes in Bermudas and sawed-off jeans, women in simple dresses, are grouped around him on threadbare chairs. While one of the writers reads from his latest work, or Schulberg lectures on the mechanics of publishing, a stranger may enter the room to bang away at the scarred upright piano...
...Japanese are ritualistic, restrained, esthetic and authoritarian; the Koreans are undisciplined, imaginative and creative; the Laotians are sensitive, pacific and passive; the Vietnamese are sensitive, combative and active. When the great Indian teacher and writer Rabindranath Tagore visited China in the '20s, he declared that the Chinese seemed stranger to him than any people he had met in the West...
Kaempfert, 42, has written many tunes, but he has had nothing like Strangers going for him before. Still, he is no stranger to the bestseller parade. While most Americans have never heard of him as a personality (he never performs in public), they have bought a remarkable 10 million copies of his schmaltz-laced albums...