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...nine months, and indeed her life seemed charmed. Deciding to motor the whole length of South Viet Nam, she made 400 miles before the Viet Cong captured her. They treated her considerately, even sharing their tunnel with her during a U.S. air strike. Later, she wrote a vivid article for LIFE Interna tional, in which she stressed her captors' gentleness and perseverance. She contributed battle footage to an anti-U.S. film, Far from Vietnam; a book of hers about the war, The Two Shores of Hell, is soon to appear...
...Cancer Too. The clenched fist of a patient describing his chest pain is a vivid illustration of the discomfort at the time of an occlusion. About two weeks after an otherwise undetected occlusion, the patient may have a hand (usually only one) that is swollen, shiny, discolored and stiff. The stiffness comes from thickening of the fibrous layer just below the skin down the middle of the palm. It may pull the fingers together and sometimes also downward. Skin thickening and stiffness of this type may be the signs of a previous and hitherto-undetected coronary occlusion...
...magnum opus, Autumn on the Hudson River, now in the National Gallery, was completed in 1860, while the artist was living in London, and commemorated a view near West Point overlooking Storm King Mountain. The panorama includes hunters, grazing sheep, and sailboats, but its real subject is the vivid plumage of birch, sugar maple, hemlock and scarlet oak. A century later, Cropsey's portrayal is still fresh and unspoiled, a continuing celebration of the season when, as Thoreau said, "every tree is a living liberty pole, on which a thousand bright flags are flying...
Venus Examined, by Robert Kyle (345 pages; Bernard Geis; $5.95), and The Experiment, by Patrick Skene Catling (317 pages; Trident Press; $5.95), give the reader the astonishingly vivid impression that he is listening to sex manuals being read aloud to the thousand strings of Mantovani. Both start with almost identical premises, suggested no doubt by the success of the Kinseyesque novel The Chapman Report and the Masters-Johnson scientific study Human Sexual Response...
...Democratic Society gave up the idea of mass marches after they started them in 1965, but in the two years since they have found no popular alternative. For non-student radicals, organizing over the price of potatoes in ghetto communities was satisfying, but it did not provide the same vivid insight into the "crumbling society" as the Vietnam...