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...DOUBLE IMAGE, by Helen Maclnnes. This is Master Spy writer Maclnnes1 13th book-and it continues her tradition of bestsellers. As usual, her hero, armed only with good manners and innocence, is thrown up against a diabolical and murderous gang of international spies in a first-rate suspense tale...
Slightly Roundheeled. The Double Image is Author Maclnnes' 13th book, and as usual it is riding high on most bestseller lists, with 70,000 copies in print. Also as usual, the hero is firm-chinned, clean-limbed-this time a young American economist named John Craig who, armed only with good manners and innocence, is recruited to help thwart an ingenious Communist scheme to penetrate U.S. security. The plot involves a trip to the Greek island of Mykonos, and MacInnes evokes a picture of its windswept charm, just as in previous books she evoked the charm of Brittany, Venice...
...last week's International Diamond Trophy races, sub-zero temperatures had turned the Mount Van Hoevenberg course so hard and slick that the sleds' runners would not bite into the ice, tended to slip sideways on the turns. Conditions were particularly bad at the 13th and 14th turns-known as the Zig-Zag -where a wooden superstructure was installed to keep the careening sleds from shooting right over the banking. As the four-man competition got under way, a U.S. sled overturned at the Zig-Zag, injuring two of the crew. At that, the wife of the next...
...luckless Green, fighting desperately to avoid closing its year with its 13th straight loss, tied the game at 62-all with 40 seconds remaining...
...cross-country event, Nordic team members Jon Chaffe (third) Jim Sise (13th), and Bear Barnes (15th) contributed an additional 93.6 points to the Crimson...