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...told-you-so winner in the exotic vegetable game is Frieda Caplan, 63, the exuberant, feisty spirit behind Frieda's Finest/Produce Specialties, a Los Angeles wholesaler. Widely credited with introducing the New Zealand kiwi into the U.S. 24 years ago, she good-naturedly gloats, "When I said it was going to be a major market, people laughed at me." Indeed, Caplan has the last laugh: she now ships 150 to 200 items all over the country at any given time. Besides such novelty vegetables as sugar-snap peas, pearl onions and spaghetti squash, she stocks Asian pears from Japan, loquats...
...story that unfolds, the author looks back nearly ten years to the time (1912) when he met and fell in love with Mrs. Frieda Weekley (nee Von Richthofen), wife of a Nottingham professor and mother of three children. Lawrence's decision to run away with her to the Continent profoundly affected his life and career, making him a renegade from conventional morality in fact as well as temperament. This whole affair has been narrated many times, by the principals and numerous biographers. Mr. Noon reveals one more shape that this experience came to assume in Lawrence's memory...
...great eternity of creation does not lie in the spirit, in the ideal. It lies in the everlasting and incalculable throb of passion and desire." On their way across the Alps and toward Italy, Johanna has sex with a young man who has temporarily joined their party, just as Frieda did under the same circumstances in 1912. Shortly after this incalculable throb, Mr. Noon abruptly ends...
...Lawrence quit? Perhaps be cause he had already used up the fictional possibilities of his union with Frieda in earlier novels, especially Women in Love...
Gromyko's scheduled sessions with the American leaders were very nearly waylaid by a totally unexpected diplomatic incident in the far northern reaches of the remote Bering Sea. There, on Sept. 12, the Frieda K, a 101-ft. supply vessel with five Alaskans on board, accidentally strayed inside Soviet territorial waters and was seized by a Soviet border-patrol boat. The Americans, who were on a routine trip to carry supplies to a seismographic research vessel in the Bering Strait, were taken to the bleak Siberian outpost of Ureliki on Provideniya Bay and confined. Only after the U.S. launched...