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...more acute. With dazzling focus he watches Sandy light upon an icily gorgeous WASP named Susan (Candice Bergen). The naif spills every intimate detail to his roommate; with metronomic two-timing, Jonathan moves in on Sandy and with Susan. But the Ivy rake has only one real amour: the mirror. Eventually he abandons Susan to Sandy, who marries her and lives happily never after...
...chagrined lot"), but he could put out the prose at a Remington-wrecking rate. Under the pen name Kenneth Robeson, he knocked off a 60,000-word Doc Savage novel almost every month for nearly 15 years. As stories, most of them are bloody good. He is a funhouse mirror of the America that loved him and apparently still does-a big square joe with the body of Charles Atlas, the brain of Thomas Edison, and the implacable innocence of Mickey Mouse...
...Right Attitude. While Donovan is indelibly stamped as an Easterner, Thomas knows the home territory. He was editor and part owner of a Los Angeles suburban paper, the Sierra Madre News, before joining the Los Angeles Mirror in 1957. He was city editor when the Mirror was killed by the parent Times in 1962, and became metropolitan editor of the Times in 1965. Since then his young and talented local staff has won two Pulitzer Prizes...
LIKE some cosmic drum roll, the rumble of thunder accompanied the wild winds and torrential rains that swept across most of Indochina last week, heralding the advent of the southwesterly monsoon. From the air, thousands of acres of paddyland glistened in the infrequent sunshine like a vast mirror. By the time the storms abate in October they will have dumped up to 150 inches of rain on the region, turning the ground into a muddy sponge and swelling the majestic Mekong River to flood stage as it courses through Laos, Cambodia and South Viet...
...Astronomy Observatory at Green Bank, W. Va., argues the possibility of holes that are the complete antithesis of black holes. Such opposites are common enough-for example, the negatively charged electron and its antimatter version, the positively charged positron. But Hjellming's white holes are more than simply mirror images of black holes. They are sources of matter that could literally come from out of this world...