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...protest could easily have wound up in tragedy, despite a swarm of Mounties and KGB men surrounding the two leaders wherever they went. As Kosygin and Trudeau strolled on Parliament Hill, a leather-jacketed demonstrator dashed through security guards and grabbed the Soviet Premier from behind, shouting "Freedom for Hungary!" As the color drained from Kosygin's face, the man almost ripped off the Soviet Premier's coat and pushed him against a Mountie. The protester was quickly hauled away and charged with common assault. Though Trudeau observed that Kosygin "is a pretty hard-nosed guy," the Soviet...
...even if we accept the argument that the Government should not intervene in private morality, legalized prostitution inevitably has social and aesthetic consequences. If there are no restraints on streetwalkers, they may swarm through the cities, accosting strangers and creating an atmosphere of general corruption. The compromise, as in London, permits prostitution to exist but not to organize; there can be no pimping and no open solicitation. There is much hypocrisy in this solution-the hypocrisy of looking away from what we find unpleasant-but it has the virtue, at least, of compelling private behavior to remain private...
Staying the Course. It was then up to Director Daniel Mann (Butterfield 8, The Rose Tattoo) to put the rats through their dramatic paces. He may well go down in cinematic history as the Cecil B. DeMille of rodent movies: the rats swarm through Willard as if they were born to stardom. There was one problem, though: getting enough rat shrieks for the sound track. With a watchful fellow from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in daily attendance, the sound men had to be crafty. One day, when the A.S.P.C.A. man was not looking, they...
...bags containing thousands of photocopied pages. Nimble newsmen frantically rushing exclusive disclosures into print. Harassed Government attorneys chasing into court to enjoin one series of revelations, only to see another break out elsewhere. A bemused federal judge wondering if the Justice Department might not be swatting futilely at "a swarm of bees...
...heights of La Paz, Bolivia, where "we killed ourselves to win a $600 watch, blood streaming down our faces and the balls zooming everywhere." In Khartoum he and three other pros played for a share of $1,000 in a match that ended with a "bug curfew" -a descending swarm of angry insects. He tells of matches on makeshift courts that were a yard too wide, of volleying on a blocked-off street in downtown St. Louis to let people know "that we were alive and playing," and of the art of lobbing shots through the rafters of bandbox arenas...