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...force of 1 ,000 Rhades to assist in village defense and to take the initiative against the Viet Cong. Where once the illiterate tribesmen made notches on bamboo sticks to indicate the number of Communist guerrillas they had seen, Cordell taught them how to count with their fingers and toes. Each toe was a unit of ten; two toes and three fingers equaled 23 Reds. When the Viet Cong killed village pigs and cattle, Cordell saw that they were replaced; when tribesmen were wounded, he would accompany them to the hospital. So much did the Rhades admire Cordell that they...
...then there is Pete Gogolak, the well-publicized place kicker. Big Pete didn't do so well at Harvard last year and the experience seemed to bother him all season. This fall, however, Cornell assures all that his toe is well-adjusted, and the Big Red may go for some field goals if the touchdown appears too difficult a task...
...Mother Kelly's doorstep, down paradise row I sit along of Nelly, she sits along of Joe. She's got a little hole in her frock, A hole in her shoe, a hole in her sock, Where her toe peeps through...
...countess will have some new furniture designed. The Most with the Money. Continental Europe, home of the lightly taxed rich, does not yet know the Society P.R. Man or the charity ball; old-line aristocracies stage their own parties, and the climbing offers fewer hand and toe holds than in the U.S. In Rome, Count Aspreno Colonna gives an annual reception in his palazzo, whose splendors no U.S. citizen could match. Queen Elizabeth II once told the count: "After seeing your palace, I feel quite reluctant to invite you to Buckingham...
...highway. Near the white line dividing traffic, a high-strung horse skitters, rears and neighs in the kind of wild-eyed terror and anguish that Picasso gives to the horse in Guernica. The symbolic question is clear: Is the untamed free spirit an outlaw that must learn to toe the white lines of the modern world or perish...