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...inhabitants of the rugged Pennsylvania mountain country around Shade Gap (pop. 140), he was known as "Bicycle Bill" because of the battered, red bike he always rode, head down, carrying one of his mongrel dogs in a handlebar basket. His real name was William Diller Hollenbaugh. Short, skinny and stooped, missing five front teeth, he had spent six of his 44 years in prison, 13 in an insane asylum. Since moving to the Shade Gap area several years ago, he had lived as a hermit in a two-room hilltop shack, subsisting on wild game and state relief checks...
...close the security gap, 45 American public-safety advisers are working with the Thai national police. The border police are adding 500 men to bring the force up to 6,500, and the provincial police are being increased 15% to some 35,000 fully equipped men. A U.S. contractor is winding up construction of 140 miles of all-weather roads linking two critical border areas with the main national road system to give the police mobility. In the north, to the same end, the U.S. has built 44 short landing strips, serviced by Helio Courier and Porter STOL planes that...
...only horse in the nine-entry field that gave Kauai King a run was a 4-1 shot named Stupendous. It was quite a tussle while it lasted. Overtaking Kauai King's early lead, Stupendous surged ahead in the backstretch, at one point opened a four-length gap. Not until he entered the homestretch did Kauai King start to come on. Responding to the sting of Brumfield's bat, his tongue lolling out of his mouth, he finished with a fantastic burst that carried him to a 1¾-length victory. Time: 1 min. 55 2/5 sec., second...
Either way, the dark, scowling observer goes unhindered about his offbeat reporting. He consciously avoids the stereotype of the foreign correspondent who deals only with high officials and sees himself as a minister without portfolio. Rudd concentrates on ordinary matters: synagogues and supermarkets, the horseradish gap, and the maiden voyage of the new luxury liner Alexander Pushkin. "The Russians say the ship is sailing almost empty because she has not been advertised in the Soviet Union," he said about the Pushkin, "but the fact is it's impossible for all but a handful of Russians to leave the country...
...Across a deserted lecture hall they exchange smoldering glances; lightly, almost accidentally, his hand brushes hers. The lighting is muted, their mood is solemn. The effect is that of domestic comedy played in the style of grand opera-a pitiless and economical way of emphasizing the gap between the actress's dreams and her everyday life...