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...hospital was hit, many more than one patient would have been hurt. It seems unlikely that the hospital was the intended target of the air attack since a major oil storage depot, which is a legitimate war-time target, was located nearby. The exaggerations about American "carpet bombing" persisted for several months after the December offensive. However, by May 1973, Drew Middleton of the New York Times concluded that the bombing had, in fact, been almost "surgical" in precision. (The source for this information is Robert F. Turner's "Vietnamese Communism: Its Origins and Development" (Hoover Institution, 1975), which should...
...hadn't given much thought to Mormons since, but, as I looked at the building, I got a sudden urge to go inside. At least it would be dry. Walking in the front door, I found myself in a large, empty lobby. The carpet was the deep, thick kind that absorbs most noise, the kind that you sink into as you walk across it. On the far side of the lobby sat a short, squat old man wearing a freshly pressed three-piece suit and tightly gripping a cane. As I walked in, he looked up at me eagerly...
...have to cram myself into a press conference... and then I have to drag the ambassador's idiotic wife over to Yves Saint Laurent... but a girl's gotta eat. By the way, I'm off to Iran next week, so if you want a carpet just let me know ... And what about you? You've really decided not to go back to work? Well, everybody's gotta do their own thing ... ciao!" and she's gone. Shaken, the mother walks into the kitchen and drops her baby in the trash...
...exactly the right degree of grunge, wear and spattering. Consequently, the presence of these figures becomes almost hallucinatory. "Speaking likenesses" that cannot speak but cannot, at a glance, be readily told apart from their spectators, they lean against the Whitney's patrician white walls or sprawl on its carpet with the air of social intruders. One reacts to them first as people, because of their verisimilitude; then, after one's gaze has gone by them-social protocol discourages staring at people as sculptures are stared at-the double take happens, and because they are in a museum they...
...country's economic development, 16 Chinese petroleum experts, led by Sun Ching-wen, the nation's No. 1 oilman, have spent the past three weeks in the U.S. at the invitation of Secretary Schlesinger. Before they flew home this week, the Chinese were given a red-carpet, coast-to-coast tour that took them to the most advanced U.S. drilling sites and laboratories. At every stop, the Chinese evidenced an insatiable curiosity, insisting upon inspecting the latest drill bits and prodding their hosts with endless, often highly technical questions...