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...home as if he were a wounded bird. It turns out to be the first nice thing anyone ever did for the lad, and he responds by knocking off anyone who threatens Dorothy even slightly. Cleverly, mind you. No indictments or messy trials, just plausible suicides, auto accidents, and prop guns that turn out to be loaded...
...appeal to law, and that in itself represents an advance over the days of Stalin, when such a protest would have been meaningless. That it is not entirely meaningless now is demonstrated by the fact that the secret police are also concerned with fabricating cases that they can prop up in a Soviet court. The KGB effort to peddle Solzhenitsyn's manuscripts abroad is a search for a pretext to arrest him. Stalin's police never required pretexts for anything they...
...Chairman William E. McKenna, who engineered the Tal ent Associates acquisition as a way of expanding his firm's activities in the communications field. Through McCall Corp., Norton Simon Inc. already pub lishes McC all's magazine (circ. 8,500,000). McKenna looks to the new prop erty for "important growth" in the field of communications...
...must also bring an end to the present government of South Viet Nam. Either it must be sacrificed to a larger coalition government as part of the price of an accord with Hanoi, so the reasoning goes, or it is certain to collapse from its own infirmities once the prop of U.S. support and the urgency of waging a war is removed. That may or may not prove true. Meanwhile, President Nguyen Van Thieu's elected government continues to go about the necessary business of trying to govern while the Communists threaten a new wave of attacks on cities...
...UNIVERSAL BASEBALL ASSOCIATION, INC., J. HENRY WAUGH, PROP., by Robert Coover. A 56-year-old accountant who sees the cosmos as an intricate baseball game records the hits, runs and many errors in his tragicomic efforts to be God's scorekeeper...