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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...argument about any place, if not about any person. It is an impossible comment to answer." Lifemanship can take many other directions. One gifted practitioner, cited by Potter in the same volume, dedicated his book "TO PHYLLIS, in the hope that one day God's glorious gift of sight may be restored to her"-thereby precasting as villains any critics unfeeling enough to pan the book. They could not know, to be sure, that Phyllis was the Lifeman's 96-year-old great-grandmother...
...Tell me, is she good?" the husband inquires softly over a glass of bourbon. The lover looks astonished. "You seem to have a very nice apartment. Could I see it?" "Are you a little perverse?" the lover asks dubiously, but he takes his visitor on a tour. The sight of an old anniversary present in the lover's bedroom is too much even for the husband's reserve. He seizes a piece of sculpture, beats the lover to death, and disposes of the corpse like a sanitation man hauling away the weekend debris. The husband's fate...
...seven years the Ivy League squash crown was a permanent Cambridge fixture. From 1961 until last spring, Harvard's intercollegiate record for dual matches was 61-1 and no end of the reign was in sight...
...schedule and only 2.6 miles from its target near the bow of the Hornet. Even so, there was a moment of tension. Drifting down under its three big orange-and-white chutes in full view of a worldwide TV audience, Yankee Clipper suddenly seemed to be billowing smoke-a sight that was ominously reminiscent of the fatal Apollo fire in 1967. In this case, however, Skipper Conrad was simply venting surplus fuel, an operation usually performed at a higher altitude...
...Cambodia is Career Diplomat Lloyd Rives, 47, whose last station was Burundi. A mere charge d'affaires in a country where even the Viet Cong have a full-fledged "ambassador," Rives lives in a three-story rented house near the brown Bassac River, within sight of grazing elephants. His bed, one of the few pieces of furniture in the place, was donated by the landlady. Bachelor Rives and his diplomatic staff of two (a secretary and a communications expert) work in a makeshift office in the servants' quarters, using packing cases as a conference table...