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...Lost." Kolachi village, on the way, no longer smoked but the smell of burnt thatch and straw (set ablaze by mortar shells) hung pungently over all. Its cottages were roofless, blackened earthen walls, through which children and women poked forlornly. On a slope in front of the ruins sat Fang Hu-shih, a wrinkled grandmother bundled in a black padded jacket and trousers. Her silver earrings danced back & forth as she rocked in silent grief. Yesterday at the height of the fighting she had hobbled on her tiny bound feet a mile away to a safe spot in the fields...
...Wimbledon, wearing a new crew haircut (he once used ribbons to tie up his blond thatch), Sweden's Lennart Bergelin, 23, tore into top-seeded Frank Parker. It produced the tennis upset of the year. Down went Parker, in five sets. But Bergelin's new look wasn't enough to get him by hard-hitting Bob Falkenburg in the quarterfinals. The Swede fell before Falkenburg's big serve...
Policy Planner. A quick, diffident man with a thick thatch of greying black hair and a scrubby mustache, Armstrong is a descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, a grandnephew of the Hamilton Fish who was President Grant's Secretary of State, and a second cousin of Isolationist Ham Fish. He was 29 and foreign correspondent for the New York Evening Post when the Council on Foreign Relations* started Foreign Affairs and made him its managing editor. Six years later Armstrong became editor. With the help of one editorial associate and a secretary, Armstrong puts out the magazine in the Council...
...deputy and a kind of general manager of the Queen Mary, Captain Illingworth has Staff Captain G. N. Jones, C.B.E., D.S.O., R.D., R.N.R. Captain Jones has a square-rigged jaw and a thatch of white hair over deep-set eyes. He looks (and is) the embodiment of that stout British character which a gloomy statesman in the House of Commons corridor recently said was Britain's one hope. As Captain Illingworth's deputy, he runs the crew. On last week's voyage, the crew was about 30% new to the ship. A few obviously did not know...
Last week Cape Breton's Scots gathered to celebrate their heritage. In a small clearing along the National Park's Cabot Trail, a reproduction of a shieling-a rough stone, thatch-roofed shepherd's cabin-was opened as a shelter for picnickers. And at Ste. Anns, Inverness County, 3,000 Scots from Nova Scotia's clans swarmed onto a high bluff overlooking the Gulf of St. Lawrence for the ninth annual Gaelic Mod (rhymes with code)-a festival of Celtic folklore and culture...