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...hell." Fellow occupants heard Speck stumbling about and peered at him. Said one: "Hey! This guy's bleeding to death." Sprawled on a scabrous mattress in the 5 x 9-ft. cubicle, Speck lay in a pool of blood from a slashed wrist and arm vein, apparently inflicted with a broken beer bottle. Called by the night clerk, two patrolmen arrived in a police...
...assistance to Hanoi. As for Hanoi, its reaction had a certain surrealistic quality, with broadcasts about "a big victory" and "a glorious feat of arms" in which, it claimed, seven U.S. planes were downed. Actual details of Hanoi's reaction were reported in a down-East country-weekly vein: "Misses Phuc and Due," said one broadcast, "were very busy today going back and forth to support troops with cartridges and water...
Gourdfuls of Beer. Odinga, touring the countryside in his black Mercedes, tried to win the voters with promises of free land, free education and jobs for everybody. He also worked the stale vein of antiwhite chauvinism. "The country is under the thumb of the Europeans," he charged. "Kenyatta is told what to do by the Americans. The whites should all be kicked out. You see them walking along, smoking their cigarettes and not looking anyone in the face. Why should we have to come along behind them and pick up their butt ends?" The antiwhite line worked well...
...saying, in regard to the current interest in auto safety, "It's all of the same order as the hula hoop--a fad. Six months from now, we'll probably be on another kick." Your editorial of May 13 on highway safety reflects a similar vein of though. In addition, you have chosen to label Ralph Nader, one of the protagonists, as "flamboyant" and suggest that the American public will soon tire of his effort...
...might have enjoyed a last posthumous joke in the last paragraph of his brilliant book. He cites a German who was hung up on the number three: "He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular vein with a razor three times and scrawled with a dying hand on a picture of his wife goodbye, goodbye, good-bye." Even the Irish don't joke about the Trinity except in dead unearnest...