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Next day nine Egyptian Cabinet ministers arrived on a morale-building mission. They wandered among Third Army soldiers at random, embracing and kissing them and introducing themselves ("I am Ahmed Hilal, Minister of Petroleum Affairs"). The troops swarmed around them, eager to tell stories. One soldier with an RPG (Rocket Propelled Grenade) antitank missile launcher slung over his shoulder almost wept when he met Mashhour Ahmed Mashhour, chairman of the Suez Canal Authority...
...returns to the Jew her grandfather wanted her to marry, a fanatic who wakes her to roll in the snow with him for penance. At last, dying, despairing, wondering about "the Apostates who denied God, considering the world a random combination of atoms," Akhsa rips open her pillowcase and finds in a crown of feathers God's feathery Hebrew name...
...serious bidder for the book, described Martha enthusiastically: "Here was this woman, dismissed as a crazy blonde with good legs by those burly Nixon locker-room boys, and by God, she was telling the truth!" Meanwhile, former Vice President Spiro Agnew was encountering resistance in the literary world. Random House turned down his prospective novel: a whodunit about a U.S. Vice President who is manipulated by Chinese Communists...
...operation is divided into three distinct parts-a sociological "profile" of the community, in-court scrutiny of potential jurors, and field investigation of their backgrounds. Preparation for the Wounded Knee trial began three months ago. Thirty volunteers spent five weeks conducting phone interviews with 576 people chosen at random from voter lists. The questions probed for signs of prejudice by asking about attitudes toward business, public personalities, police and, of course, Indians...
Homilies like these, delivered by two little-known Manhattan psychoanalysts, fill a 54-page book that is selling at the rate of 10,000 a week. How to Be Your Own Best Friend (Random House; $4.95) is indeed heralded by some of its 250,000 readers as this year's Jonathan Livingston Seagull, promising yet another flight to happiness...