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Once the planes had left, Kasler was lashed to a board and driven north in the back of a pickup truck. At each village, he says, "people would hit me and throw rocks and mud at me, and the guards would hit me in the mouth-I guess to show how tough they were. In one village, they gave a little girl a bayonet and took pictures of her holding it to my throat. Big heroine! When we reached Hoa Lo prison camp [the so-called Hanoi Hilton] they put me on a cement floor, and interrogators told me that...
...every fifth or sixth line of dialogue with the title of a Dickens novel, which is fairly hilarious all by itself. Another laugh-bulging scene is a Madison Avenue group-think probe, complete with gestures à la charades, as to why a cleaning company's detergent spray produces mud when a housewife uses...
...thought as she opened her mouth and stretched out her arms that she would call out a name, perhaps to question the ragged rain falling all around her. Instead she moaned, a primitive sound she had never made before, and fell to her knees on the mud dusty porch floor, her hands straining towards the rain. She felt caught on the moan, trapped. It sailed from her throat into the wailing wind...
...construction stretched into the severe winter of 1968-69, work crews had to mount jet aircraft engines on trucks and focus the exhaust on the ground to thaw it, and on newly poured cement to keep it from cracking. In the spring, the construction site became a sea of mud. Hundreds of yards of dikes and runoff canals had to be built. Fiat had to rely on Soviet subcontractors to supply many of the parts it needed in the early stages of production. Tires from the factory of Jaroslav wore out after no more than ten miles of testing...
...each station requires about 50 smaller ones for gas pumps and such), Exxon had to parcel the work among 30 manufacturers. In addition, the new trademark had to be affixed to 11 million credit cards, 22,000 oil wells and 18,000 buildings, plus innumerable employee identification badges, truck mud-flaps and pencils. The company expects to complete the sign changeover by early April at an estimated cost of $100 million...