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...able to resist pressure from their own anti-French extremists only if the negotiations were hermetically sealed off from newsmen. As a meeting place Joxe chose Les Rousses, a crowded but unfashionable French ski resort near the Swiss border. There the French team took over the government-owned Chalet du Yeti (the Cottage of the Abominable Snowman). The Algerians, quartered across the border at a lakeside resort, used different cars and routes each day to attend the sessions, driving straight into a garage that connected with the conference room. All the delegates disguised themselves as skiers in stretch pants...
...role in the battle. It was actually his chief of staff, Ludendorff, who personally directed and deployed the troops. Hindenburg fully approved of Ludendorff's strategies. The two worked closely together throughout World War I. When Hindenburg was made a field marshal he was nicknamed "Marshal Was-sagst-du" because whenever he was asked an opinion, he would turn to Ludendorff and query, "Was sagst du?" (What...
CASTLE DOR (274 pp.)-Arthur Quiller-Couch and Daphne du Maurier-Doubleday...
This engaging period piece was begun by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (pronounced cooch, as in cooch dancer), who once took time off from his voluminous novels, poems and anthologies to complete St. Ives, the novel left unfinished at his death by Robert Louis Stevenson. Author Daphne (Rebecca) du Maurier has performed a similar service for Sir Arthur, who died in 1944 at the age of 80. In her Gothic conclusion, Author du Maurier is inventive enough, but her sentences-round and ripe though they be-lack the sonorous roll of Quiller-Couch's originals. Who but an authentic Victorian...
...League is done by the alumni. It is a known fact that Coach Murray Armstrong of Denver receives $500 to cover recruiting expenses for a tour he takes through western Canada. On this trip, the coach perspective players. . . and tells them about the advantages of attending DU. Similar practices are performed for the Ivy League by their mass network of alumni. In these areas where it is known that a certain desired athletic ability is abundant--for example, Ohio, in football--Harvard clubs are very active. . . they do not pretend to pass judgment on either but it is interesting...