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...Even if John le Carre's book isn't authentic, nobody except another certified spy can be sure; and it has the merit of sounding chillingly true. Following the grim trials of Le Carré's hero, a fiftyish cold war warrior named Alec Leamas, a reader is likely to break into a sweat and thank God he isn't in Leamas' shoes...
Though 75-year-old Middle-Reader George Papandreou won November's Greek elections, his party fell short of a parliamentary majority. A few weeks later, Papandreou survived a vote of confidence, but only with the support of 28 leftist Deputies. No thanks, said the new Premier, abruptly resigning. Despite the urging of King Paul, Papandreou also refused to enter a coalition with the conservatives, whose defeated leader, Constantine Karamanlis, had disgustedly quit politics and retired (temporarily, at least) to Paris...
...papers work harder than the Minneapolis Tribune at expanding the boundaries of reader interest. A Tribune suggestion in 1960 caught the eye of Minnesota's U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey, who took it to Washington-where John F. Kennedy put it into effect as the Peace Corps. The Tribune's able science reporter, Victor Cohn, produced a farsighted series on Russian science in 1951-six years before Sputnik. For 24 years, the paper has been urging its readers away from Midwestern isolationism with a world-consciousness that is the projection of globetrotting Publisher John Cowles. He yielded leadership...
...there by peddling only the most marketable wares-crime, sex, sob stuff and baby pictures-with professional skill. But even the sober New York Times could take lessons from the News's equally professional ability to cut the "important but dull" story down to size. The News reader gets just about everything in the lively, abbreviated style suitable to someone being jolted underground from The Bronx to midtown. The Times and other papers might well take further lessons from News editorials, which are usually short, sometimes outrageous, but always understandable. The News's editorial page pulls a thumping...
...Belfast & Moosehead Lake, the Hoosac Tunnel and Wilmington and the Tweetsie. Most of them are operated by small businessmen for whom railroading is still a shirtsleeve job and the romance of the rails a pleasant bonus. But apart from a handful, like North Carolina's Tweetsie, and the Reader Railroad in southwest Arkansas, which have made their puffing steam locomotives colorful and profitable tourist attractions, romance is not what the short lines are run for. Says an Interstate Commerce Commission official: "There's money to be made in short-line railroads these days if you know...