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...longtime adversary in Moscow. Publicly accepting the injunction of superiors, Smiley decides to do a little freelance investigation. On the scent from London to Germany he encounters a brilliant cast of characters from previous enterprises: Connie, the sapphic Soviet expert whom the Circus has dubbed Mother Russia; Oliver Lacon, the icy intelligence chief whose marital distress parallels Smiley's; the estranged Ann, still Mrs. Smi ley, and still destructive; and, ultimately, Karla himself...
...reason for doing nothing. He had watched Whitehall's skirts go up, and come down again, her belts being tightened, loosened, tightened. He had been the witness, or victim-or even reluctant prophet-of such spurious cults as lateralism, parallelism, separatism, operational devolution, and now, if he remembered Lacon's most recent meanderings correctly, of integration. Each new fashion had been hailed as a panacea: 'Now we shall vanquish, now the machine will work!' Each had gone out with a whimper, leaving behind it the familiar English muddle, of which, more and more, in retrospect...
...cast includes Yolanda Lacon '51, Joan Dexter '52, Nancy Ryan '52, Robert E. Feters '51, John C. Hutchinson '50. Roger W. Murphy 50, George F. Skinner '60, and Joseph S. Vera '50, plus an on-stage chorus of five men and six women...
William W. Hancock '38 of Lacon, Illinois and Eliot House was elected president, succeeding Thomas W. Stephenson '37. Robert W. Bean '39 of Council Bruffs, Iowa and Dunster House was elected vice-president, succeeding W. Tucker Dean '37. Bean is a former president of the Freshman Debating Team. Lawrence F. Ebb '39 of Dorcehester and Lowell House was elected secretary, succeeding John A. Sullivan '38. Fred W. Peel '39 of Danville, Kentucky and Dunster House was elected to the new post of Secretary for Public Information...
Going down Lacon Mountain 20 miles out of Decatur, the five cars carrying prisoners and officers came suddenly to a halt. Later there was no agreement as to how and why the affray started. But. in sum, Negro Ozie Powell leaned forward and sliced a deputy sheriff in the neck with a knife. The sheriff then shot off a portion of Ozie Powell's forehead. The deputy was rushed off to a physician who closed the wound with twelve sutures. Ozie Powell, still conscious and still chained between two of his fellow prisoners, was driven 70 miles...
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