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Garp himself begins in an act of highly spiced imagination. During World War II, his mother, Nurse Jenny Fields, climbs into bed with a ball-turret gunner who has been lobotomized by a piece of flak. The gunner, Technical Sergeant Garp, dies shortly afterward, leaving only the initials of rank for his son's first name. For Jenny, her one and only sexual experience is a calculated insemination consistent with her independent nature. As she writes in A Sexual Suspect, the autobiography that makes her famous, "I wanted a job and I wanted to live alone. That made...
...incident at all connected with their entry into the Beirut suburbs," reports TIME's Abu Said Abu Rish from the Lebanese capital. "In the column that pushed down the main Beirut-Damascus highway, one tank crewman was singing Arabic songs through a megaphone; another sat atop his turret playing a shepherd's flute. In some places the troops were received with slaughtered lambs. In others women threw rice and tincture of orange blossoms over them in the traditional sign of welcome...
...great old army tank, hit decades ago by an enemy shell, sunken in a shallow lagoon. The iron flaps of the tank's turret are rusted open, steadily washed over by the waves; its corroded gun defiantly trains on trenches and machine-gun nests, long buried in the sands of a deserted beach...
...different fate. Nine months after the fight, she sank in a gale off Cape Hatteras, N.C., taking 16 members of her 63-man crew down with her. The precise spot where the ship-with her eight layers of 1-in. iron plates and two 111n. guns in a revolving turret-went down remained a mystery...
...tanks rotates its turret, its gun turned away from the Institute to protect it from the impact. The tank charges from the full width of the empty street into the iron gate. The 40-ton steel machine destroys the gate, and the commandos and the policemen charge into the Institute...