Word: zigzags
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...success in Japan, Ceylon and, of all places, New Zealand. North Viet Nam's wispy leader, Ho Chi Minh, is ambiguous about his loyalties, but must reflect that Red China is next door while Russia is far away. Indonesia's Red chief, D. N. Aidit, walks a zigzag line, and Burma, typically, has two Communist factions-one for Mao, one for Khrushchev...
...blond little Peter Eichhorn, 2½ years old and toddling through the woods beside his twelve-year-old brother, the cold war did not exist. He was aware only of the grass tickling his legs, the fun-crunch of dry leaves, the scent of pine needles, the zigzag flight of a butterfly. Suddenly, during an unguarded moment, Peter dashed off, bent on exploration and discovery. By the time his brother noticed and began searching for him, the tiny tot was beyond recall, happily lost in the thickets and forest leading to the death strip...
...sauce and a jar of Ajinomoto brand monosodium glutamate. And taped over his liver, like a mustard plaster, is a wad of 80,000 yen. Junpei prefers to live by his wits instead of his money, and hits the road to put the touch on all who cross his zigzag path. On his travels he encounters Komako, a female swindler with a grisly gimmick: she begs by posing as a Hiroshima maiden, although her scars are really from a childhood encounter with a fireplace. "My white corpuscles decrease daily-sometimes I swoon from anemia," she says with a pitiful passion...
...Skyward Zigzag. Before Kaul had a chance to try and "clear out" the Chinese in NEFA, the Chinese struck first on Oct. 20. Some 20,000 burp-gun-toting infantry stormed over Thag La ridge and swept away a 5,000-man Indian brigade strung out along the Kechilang River. The surprise was complete, and dazed survivors of the Chinese attack struggled over the pathless mountains, where hundreds died of exposure. In Ladakh the Chinese scored an even bigger victory, occupying the entire 14,000 square miles that Peking claims is Chinese territory...
Author Hoving's permissiveness extends to the debatable question of the continental versus the "zigzag" (American) system of knife-and-forkery; Hoving, like Social Mannerists Post and Vanderbilt, endorses the continental form (right hand for the knife, left for the fork, and no switching between bites), ends on a promising note. "When you know the rules," says Hoving, "you can start breaking them...