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...spartan cell is no different from that of any ordinary inmate at the Tokyo House of Detention-a 6-ft. by 9-ft. concrete cubicle furnished with two tatami mats, a collapsible table and a toilet. Former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka's new quarters were a long way from the exquisitely landscaped home across town where he lived until his arrest last week. Yet the House of Detention was not wholly unfamiliar to "Kaku-san," as he was once affectionately nicknamed. In 1948, as a brash young member of the Japanese Diet, he spent three weeks there on charges...
Police officials speculated that the kidnapers not only spent more than $10,000 to underwrite the ghoulish venture but also planned it in chilling detail. The kidnapers took care to stock the big truck with water, blankets and a small chemical toilet, and to install two air vents before it was buried. They apparently spent a good deal of time in Chowchilla studying the movements of the schoolchildren; when they finally ambushed the school bus, they did so at a place and a time when they knew nobody would be around...
...November-class subs have rarely shown their periscopes outside Soviet waters since one sank off the English coast in 1970. Besides, the submarines-famed for their noisiness-are absurdly easy to detect. When they dive, observes one Norwegian navy officer, they sound "like the flushing of an antique toilet." The sub involved in the Sjevik incident was not even given a chance to make a rackety descent. After it had dragged the Norwegian ship backward and then finally surfaced, crewmen scrambled to cut away the trawler's cable from the disabled sub's bow, where it had become...
...Trelkovsky. His life becomes an accumulation of odd incidents: puzzling, nasty little encounters with neighbors, episodes of bizarre mystery inside the apartment. One night he pulls a tooth from a hole in his wall. On another, he sees people standing still, staring at him for hours from the toilet facilities across the courtyard. Paranoia increases, reality slips away. Trelkovsky starts painting his nails, buys a wig wears a dress of his predecessor that he finds hanging in the closet. He suspects a plot and expects violence...
Less noble in realization, but no less heartfelt in intent, is an eruption of red, white and blue that is spattering America like Bicentennial measles. It is spreading-literally-from top to bottom, from tricolored wigs to toilet seats, planes and trains to municipal fireplugs, Tiffany diadems to morticians' coffins. An instant industry has sprung up manufacturing Bicentennial gewgaws such as plastic tricornes, birthday buttons, patriotic bikinis and tricolor towels. With pride, affection and occasional humor, from motives ranging from crass commercialism to plain and fancy patriotism, Americans are splashing the land with primary color that, for a change...