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...North Viet Nam. His fiat to reorganize the Government caught the men elevated to super positions unawares and stunned the strata of bureaucracy below. Congress looked on in ignorance like the rest of the country. All through the nation Nixon was gaining the reputation of some kind of grim fiscal reaper as the depth and extent of his budget slashes filtered out. The actions were often not as unsettling as the calculated silence and distance of the President, an unprecedented attitude in an office that, as Nixon himself has explained, depends on keeping the people informed...
...Such grim improvements in the barrier are clearly designed to discourage East Germans, 871 of whom escaped last year, from interpreting détente as a license to flee to the West. Other recent innovations will relieve East German border guards of any problem of conscience they might have. Although guards are under orders to shoot to kill would-be escapees on sight, some have apparently looked the other way or deliberately avoided hitting their compatriots. The East Germans have now equipped sections of the barrier with automatic self-firing weapons, mounted on three levels so that anyone seeking...
Wait-don't you want to hear about my new play? It's about people trying to survive-literally stay alive-in the contemporary world. Actually, it's grim as hell...
Survival in the Far East is a grim proposition that can make you old before your time. On Taiwan, the land is not fertile, and the heat and humidity are unbearable Nevertheless a new prosperity is offering more economic security than Chinese have known in this century. Between the new hotels there are still the one room corrugated tin shacks, but an incredible number of these shacks have sprouted TV antennas. The children and ancient women still desperately peddle stale cigarettes and gum never seeming to sell any-but death by starvation is a rarity in Taiwan gone...
Premonitions. On rare occasions, there were grim premonitions. One day Bruce and a friend went ski-sailing for the first time on Crystal Lake. The experience was exhilarating: "I do not be lieve that I have ever felt more completely in tune with the universe than I felt that morning." Then, without warning, the ice turned thin, and as Catton looked down he could see only the blackness of the water below. "It was not just my own death that had been down there," Catton writes. "It was the ultimate horror, lying below all life, kept away by something...