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Typical is the pair of two-room buildings in Tan Thanh Dong, a tiny cluster of huts in the Mekong Delta, where the teachers' voices must compete with the rumble of armored convoys on the road outside. Communist slogans, painted on the classroom walls by Viet Cong by night and whitewashed away by day, are faintly visible. Bullet holes stand out more starkly. On their way to school along a pot-holed road, children step carefully, watch for Viet Cong mines. One enemy mine recently killed two South Vietnamese soldiers near the school, and both sides ambush each other...
...perpetual financial crisis and rapid turnover of its mini-staff, has never missed a week. Young reporters driving long distances late at night have demolished Courier cars; business managers have thrown up their hands at the Courier'S book-keeping-by-memory system and stalked out of its two-room headquarters in a downtown Montgomery office building, never to return. But while steadily losing money (advertising and sales pay only a fraction of its $4,000-a-month budget; the rest comes from private donations and foundation grants), it has been making friends and influencing politics...
...mornings at his two-room apartment on the 36th floor of Manhattan's Essex House, Bing pauses over his porridge to read the London Daily Telegraph ("I can't lift the New York...
...Cover) SCENE ONE THE TIME: 1948. THE PLACE: A typical, two-room bohio, or farmhouse, on the outskirts of Laguna Verde, Dominican Republic. The name Laguna Verde, meaning Green Lagoon, is hyperbole. A ragged hamlet located about 15 miles from the Haitian border, it is the home of 500-odd campesinos who scratch out a living by growing maize and rice in sun-baked clay that scarcely tolerates thorny scrub and cactus. Inside the Marichal bohio (palm-bark walls, thatched roof, oddments of homemade furniture), a nine-year-old boy sprawls shirtless on the concrete floor, unraveling the thread from...
...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...