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VIVE MOI!, By Sean O'Faolain. The Irish novelist and essayist writes his autobiography with a candor that few writers can quite achieve in cold type. The result is a fever chart of an overworked Catholic conscience, and a collage of the scenes of an Irish childhood...
...Instead, I ask that you join with me in proving that every American can stand on his own, make up his own mind, chart his own future, keep and control his own family, asking for help and getting help only when truly overwhelming problems, beyond his control, beset...
Fulfillment. Foot survived to chart (on camel back) the Wadi Araba Desert between the Red Sea and the Dead Sea, was blown out of a staff car on his way to demand the surrender of a Vichy French garrison in Syria, got stabbed in the back by an anti-British terrorist in Nigeria. He helped Nigerian politicians draft their constitution, and headed Jamaica's march to stability and independence. As for his last and most frustrating assignment, he says wryly that "anyone who understood Cyprus had been misinformed." Whatever the fate of that unhappy nation, Sir Hugh looks back...
...small wonder that the juvenile delinquency rate is more than double New York's or that the venereal disease rate among Harlem's youth is six times higher than in the rest of the city. Harlem is a mother lode of such statistics, but no footnoted chart on child neglect could reveal as much about the place as the story of the lost little girl of three who was not able to tell the police where she was from, and knew her mother only by the name she had heard around the house: "Bitch...
Then Betrayal. The simple murderer proved a difficult man to catch, and Interior Minister Sahir Kurutluoglu came under such intense criticism for failing to do so that he went personally to the southeast, summoned provincial governors, army commanders and police officers to a meeting to chart plans for trapping Kocero. At the moment the meeting was being held, the bandit was nonchalantly holding up eleven autos and buses a scant eight miles away. The laughingstock of Turkey, Kurutluoglu resigned soon afterward...