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Along with most other holler folk, Floyd Handshoe is virtually illiterate. To keep his job, according to federal regulations, Floyd-the father of 14 children-must struggle ignobly off to school two nights a week, when most menfolk thereabouts have other things on their minds. His wan, dark-haired wife says hopefully: "Floyd never could read. I notice now he can write his name real good. They act like it hurts them to go to school, but it don't." Nonetheless, the Handshoes' main aim in life is not to qualify for factory jobs but simply...
...spoke, no cigarettes were allowed, nor was mosquito repel lent, despite the stinging swarms-for a trained soldier can smell the chemical 50 yards away. Around 3 a.m. a drenching monsoon rain roared in from the northeast, but still not a marine moved. It lasted two hours. Finally the wan moon reappeared and picked out four men, its light gleaming from their weapons heading out of the village. The marines opened fire, a grenade exploded, and the leathernecks had one more kill and three wounded V.C. prisoners. "I hate this goddamned place like I never hated any place...
Even if this concern does not worry him there is no reason for Dr. Blaine to virtually promote the use of marijuana. Will we next hear the cry--"Dope man--I got cocaine, heroin, opium, bennies, peyote, and mari-WAN-nah"? George H. Arnold...
...thief was reported to have wan- dered through as least three (C, and F and G) of Adams' nine entries. One student in F entry reported that someone tried to enter his room twice around 6 a.m. He was prevented both times because the door was locked...
There is never so much color and laughter in the building as on opening nights. The editors, who are loquacious enough when the newsroom is their own, seem wan, unshaven, even vaguely underdressed, as if they had forgotten to scrub for their own party...