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...versatile fellow. In Marco Polo, If You Can, he quotes Yeats, works for the CIA and pilots a U2. But he is not a routine spy in the sky. Because a mole in the National Security Council has been passing policy secrets to the Soviets, Oakes is asked to fake a forced landing in the U.S.S.R. and allow a packet of forged documents to fall into enemy hands. The aim of this counterespionage is to neutralize a Soviet agent and drive a wedge into Chinese-Soviet relations. Can Blackie pull off this caper and get home in time for such...
...young Thai is a modern master of fake antiquities
...tooling up U.S. 1 now, heading north, 15 miles over the limit. Soon, he thought, he would be far away from the fake-green lushness of functional golf courses. For a moment, his eye caught the still-soiled golf clubs in the rear-view mirror. He smiled. This December, Bogart Jackson would see snow...
...offs as well as spinoffs. Counterfeit versions are available on street corners in some American cities for far less than the normal $5 to $10 price. Ideal Toy Corp., which holds the U.S. distribution rights of Rubik's brainteaser, has sued more than 20 American companies for importing fake cubes from such places as Taiwan and Hong Kong...
...neighborhoods. Blue-collar housing consisted of look-alike cottages or row houses. But after World War II, in their own dogged kind of urban renewal, more affluent workers began to alter their monotone dwellings. They painted them in pinks and greens, sheathed them in asbestos shingles, ersatz clapboard or fake stone and brick and punched outsized suburban picture windows into them. This remodeling often led to a complete transformation, to a peculiar, eclectic vernacular that lent variety to the uniformity of gray, Edward Hopper neighborhoods...