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...stay at an English school to which his parents had sent him. He brutally seduces the only person who had shown him affection-Nora, the headmaster's wife-and records her suicide by drowning in the Medway. During the whole time at this school, Ferdinand refuses to utter a single word but raves to himself ferociously: "Speak? Speak? About what? . . . Christ! and all their stinking rottenness, and my buddies and the fags and the floozies and all their lowdown tricks...
...Utter Desolation. The correspondent is Harrison Salisbury, 58, a prestigious and enterprising reporter for the New York Times for 17 years and now one of its assistant managing editors. Last spring and summer, Salisbury, who was based in Moscow for five years, traveled around the periphery of Red China, gathering material for a series of stories and at the same time sounding out Communist diplomats about his chances of getting into North Viet Nam. For months he heard nothing. Then, in the middle of last month's furor over charges that the U.S. had bombed civilian sections of Hanoi...
...described "block after block of utter desolation" in residential districts. U.S. planes, concluded Salisbury, "are dropping an enormous weight of explosives on purely civilian targets"-and, in Hanoi's view, they are doing it "deliberately...
...utter foolishness, nothing quite matches the practical joke that backfired tragically on a 25-year-old Dallas lad last month. While waiting for his three hunting companions to return to their campsite near Llano, Texas, he got a sudden inspiration. He hid in a clump of heavy brush along the trail leading to the camp; when his friends drew alongside, he made snarling noises and shook the bushes violently. The charade worked perfectly. Convinced that they were about to be attacked by a mountain lion, the three hunters opened fire, and killed him on the spot...
...Klee's fidgety drawings turned into robots. New York's Modern Art and Whitney museums each snapped up one of the beasts from the tech stylist's first one-man show at the Stable Gallery. "For the artist to ignore the possibilities of technology would be utter folly," says Seawright, and he seems to have ignored few. His Watcher took 6½ months to produce; its tiny lights flicker in programmed sequences, photocell-tipped antennas bob about like tentacles, seeking the lights, and a speaker tweets and squeals to the pulsing of the circuitry...