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...they have killed as many as eight Communists a night by using such tactics. "We've licked the Viet Cong because we've surprised them more than they have us," says Clement. "They have neither the firepower nor the reserve to counter us. When we can swim in the sea of people as well as they can, then we're going...
...Japan Anglers' Association, purists all, call the craze an "insult to the noble sport." But the police have not yet found any law to prevent it. About the only sufferers seem to be the carp, which bear the scale scars of many a near miss, and have to swim through water mixed with a dye to make it look deep. The fish are tiny -3 in. to 10 in. long-but some parlors compensate by renting out bamboo poles so flimsy that they often snap in two when a fish is hooked. Some observers have linked the fishing...
...small talk. "Several people at the camp have burns, and we were trying to find vinegar in the supplies to ease them. But the vinegar was already mixed with the herbs for salad dressing. Are you people really drinking this water? I don't even like to swim in it, it's so buggy...
...pursuit of a normal childhood. He did not quite get one, but he managed to break his nose playing football and his leg ice-skating, and he almost drowned when, at ten, he jumped off a 36-ft.-high diving board before he had learned to swim...
...totally dehumanized. Leamas is believable; Leiser is not. The book's tension depends not so much on Leiser's spying mission to East Germany as on the efforts of a scorned and inferior arm of British intelligence ("the Department") to haul itself back into the Establishmentarian swim on Leiser's shoulders. With a typically British mixture of ineptness and guile, the seven men who still operate the Department in the drab house on Blackfriars' Road, jostle for position, portentously con "the Minister" for a bigger budget, extra limousines, higher status. And on Cambridge Circus, another...