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Most of the familiar spy-story elements are there: an inexplicable but obviously treacherous plot against the national welfare of jolly old England, an equally enigmatic and treacherous villain, and a beautiful girl. All the events necessary for a good thriller occur with surprising regularity: a snappy, bone-crunching fight, an amusing seduction, and a sadistically satisfying torture...
...killing with impunity. No highway was safe by night, and few by day; the trains had long since stopped running. From their tunneled redoubts, the Communist Viet Cong held 65% of South Viet Nam's land and 55% of its people in thrall. Saigon's armies were bone weary and bleeding from defections. As the momentum of their monsoon offensive gathered, the Communists seemed about to cut the nation in half with a vicious chop across the Central Highlands. The enemy was ready to move in for the kill, and South Viet Nam was near collapse...
...problems of living beneath the sea were varied and puzzling. All the men suffered frequent headaches, occasional absentmindedness, and the strange experience of waking at night perspiring even while feeling bone-chilling cold. Often they noticed a cloudy inability to reason quickly that became known as "the Sealab effect." In the helium-filled atmosphere of the capsule, sounds took some weird twists, and it was often hard to tell which direction a voice was coming from. Consonants got lost in the thin air. Paul became "aul" and Jell-O "ello.' "Every time someone opened his mouth," said Carpenter...
Compared with the 19th century poor so bitingly described in literature-Zola's Gervaise "was quite willing to dispute with a dog for a bone"-the American poor are well off. They would be considered rich by most Red Chinese, whose per capita annual income averages $70. In southern Italy and Sicily, thousands of nullatenenti (havenots) live in caves or open trenches. Poverty is too soft a word to describe the puffed stomachs that are common sights in India, Africa and Brazil's northeast. On the other hand, Scandinavia knows nothing like American slums, and Soviet Russia...
Painful Reverses. Field's personal life was another matter. He was almost painfully aware of his family responsibilities and he took reverses very hard. He had already been divorced once, and after the death of his father in 1956 and a series of bone-wearying negotiations with other publishers, he suffered a nervous breakdown that hospitalized him for six months. After periodic relapses, his second marriage was also dissolved. A third divorce was probably imminent. Since 1963 he had been less and less able to exercise command; control of Field Enterprises, Inc., passed into the hands of the three...