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...Executive Director M. Justin Herman and other officials, including Director Thomas Hoving of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art. A crowd of several hundred people collected in the plaza below. Suddenly there was a ripple, a movement, a collective rush to the pool. For there, stomping about waist-deep in the water, was the vandal of the night before: black sweater and beard, dark hair hanging below his shoulders and a new can of red paint, with which he was vigorously stenciling another QUEBEC LIBRE on the fountain. He was not arrested. He was, as it turned out, none...
...many other telltale clues as to whether or not a camp is occupied. If, as Laird suggested, intelligence cannot function any better than it did at Son Tay, disturbing questions arise about the thousands of targets bombed by the U.S., North and South, throughout the war. The raiders found waist-deep grass around the compound; from the evidence, General Manor concluded that Son Tay had been abandoned for several weeks...
...visits to the birthplace are one of Johnson's few known breaks from full-time ranching. His well-known restless energy has been channeled into the raising of chickens for egg production, laying irrigation pipe-sometimes wading waist-deep into the Pedernales to lend a hand-racing across his 330-acre spread in a radio car and barking orders about sprinklers and feed for cattle. Ranch hands respond to his call the way White House staffers once did. The former Chief Executive energetically briefs his guests not on foreign policy but on livestock prices and the weather...
...scuttled the boat, stashing aboard it a waterproof bag with $480,000, then took off through the waist-deep swamp toward the lights of El Jobean, a tiny fishing village. He never made it. Two Charlotte County deputies stalked him until finally he paused to rest directly in front of them. "We turned the light on him, and there he was, crouched down on a log, just sitting there," said Deputy Milton Buffington. They found $17,-000 in his pocket...
...scores-and attendance around the big leagues is down 4% from 1967. "I'm tired of 1-0 games myself," says the Angels' Fregosi, whose suggested remedy for baseball's power failure is to eliminate the mound and make pitchers throw out of a waist-deep hole...