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...Koreas; they are backed up by 50,000 U.S. troops. Park has also sealed the border area with a high wooden fence and hundreds of "K.P.s," or killing posts, manned by ten-man teams of sharpshooters. Not even mail is permitted to pass. To catch agents who do slip through, bounty signs are scattered all over the country, offering 200,000 won (about $700) for the capture of enemy agents. "Become a patriot and become rich," they urge, "by catching...
...columnist after F. O. Mathiessen's death. I like to remember the time when armed with nothing but quiet assurance he took an axe from the hands of a mentally disturbed student. I laugh to recall how his presidency of the Saturday Club led Robert Frost into a slip of the tongue at President Kennedy's inauguration...
...force. "In the second Hiss trial," writes Zeligs, "Chambers . . . testified that Richard [his brother] had died on September 19, 1926. Whether Chambers knew it or not (and it is likely that he did), September 19, 1926 was the birth date of Alger Hiss's stepson. Timothy Hobson (an easy slip away from September 9, 1926, the actual date of Richard's death)." Zeligs attempts to tie this error into a chain of meaningful mistakes on Chambers' part...
...capital punishment as "an insult to civilized society," Bailey said that some one like Albert DeSalvo -- the 'Boston Strangler' -- should be studied, not killed. "DeSalvo," Bailey said, "gives psychiatrists a rare chance to study the mentality of an irrational killer, and the doctors should not let the chance slip away...
...aesthetic consequences of what they are doing." Walking down the new three-foot-wide sidewalk on the west side of Palmer Street, he demonstrates his point by pretending to collide with the No Parking sign planted squarely in the middle of the walk and then by trying to slip between the building and a truck parked in the street. "As long as you have people who can spend thousands of dollars to build a sidewalk like this," he declared, "all the experts and all the activists in the world won't make the city amore pleasant place to live...