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...little perceptible evolution. Last week's three chapters, for instance, interwove the multiple subplots without even a glimmer of psychic peace or a fleeting, joyous guffaw. Dr. Vincent Markham, back home after winning "international renown as the Albert Schweitzer of the Andes," was, it turned out, on the brink of divorce because he could not relate to women, and on the road to suicide because of sibling rivalry with a twin brother. The town's most dynamic executive, David Schuster, was feeling trapped at the office and in a sick second marriage that was turning his lovely, congenitally...
...them all, non-proliferation seems the most likely area for a breakthrough, as both the U.S. and the Soviet Union grow increasingly uneasy about the number of nations on the brink of atomic weaponry (TIME, July 23). The British delegation to Geneva has already been circulating a non-proliferation draft, and the U.S. has been readying a document of its own to put before the committee. If this was not the subject uppermost in Russian minds, then, diplomats guessed, they might not want anything more at Geneva than a daily public platform for berating the U.S. about Viet...
...other contraceptive methods, Dr. Nayar hopes to cut India's soaring birth rate almost in half in a decade-from 40 to 25 births per 1,000 population per year. Many Indian leaders agree that the nation must do something of the kind or live on the brink of chronic famine. Despite a 10% gain in this year's grain crop, the country cannot feed itself, must depend on 600,000 tons of U.S. wheat a month to avert a recurrence of last year's food riots. Mindful of this, Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri...
...brink of destitution, just hop aboard a special bus leaving the Square at 12:15, head for Rockingham Park race track, and you'll be a rich man by mid-afternoon. The first race is a toss-up between two long shots, BEAU GENERAL and JACK DEMPSEY. Play each of them in the daily double with EFSHAR in the second race. The double should pay around $200. It can't lose...
...take off after dinner for the gambling casinos across the state line in Nevada, where any visitor can get a quick piece of the action. Most successful caterer to these mixed interests is River Ranch, a Currier & Ives styled encampment that opened only one year ago on the brink of the Truckee River just south of the lake, and has already become the place to stay for sophisticated young San Francisco marrieds...