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...bumblers), from the KGB (more humane and more efficiently murderous), and from East Germany. Mercader appears to work with the Russians-but possibly has become a no-longer-useful and hence disposable double agent for them. Amsterdam is filled with other people who seem to bounce off him at random, including a henpecked French intellectual and an American writer at work on a screenplay about Trotsky. Over the novel hovers a controlling symbol, the reiterated memory of the ten minutes in the sunlit, walled garden in Mexico in 1939 when Trotsky was murdered with an Alpine pick. Ramon Mercader...
Jordan's King Hussein may reasonably feel confident about being able to handle the fedayeen. Others have good reason to fear their random outbursts of terrorism. Among the guerrillas' priority targets are Soviet Jews emigrating to Israel at the rate of 30,000 a year. Twice this year fedayeen groups set out to attack Schönau Castle in Vienna where the refugees, who travel from Russia to Austria by train, are quartered midway in their exodus. Both times the attackers were spotted beforehand and arrested. Two months ago, another terrorist band killed four innocent travelers at Athens...
George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, said that the science faculty had not been consulted about the transfer of volumes from Hilles, and he added that a random poll of science faculty would show that "they are all very dismayed...
...There's no question that most of the people at the Institute are or have been Democrats," May said yesterday, "but that's because most people at Harvard are Democrats. I think we have more Democrats and more conservatives than you would get in a Harvard institution chosen at random...
...cornerstone for Dada, the movement that celebrated disorder, chance, anarchism−anything to reverse the stultified, rational societies that had led to World War I. Thereupon, Duchamp renounced canvas forever. He became a fixture of the New York art scene, painted on glass, composed musical pieces by making a random choice of notes, and dropped pieces of string, then froze them to a board with a glue...