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...with his literary butterfly net-is there an idea on the wind that he can't ensnare and turn into a jaunty, funny, shocking piece of fiction? There have already been the international spy thriller (Tremor of Intent), the scatological novel (Enderby), the population-explosion novel (The Wanting Seed), the Third World satire (Devil of a State), the historical novel (Nothing Like the Sun), and the futuristic novel (A Clockwork Orange). Now comes MF, the biggest send-up of them all, on Claude Levi-Strauss's intellectually fashionable structural anthropology...
...youngsters in 46 countries, estimated that the strike had cost it $180,000. Britain's newspapers lost nearly $12 million in advertising: two of them, the ailing Daily Sketch and Daily Mail, announced their proposed merger-a long-discussed union doubtless hastened by the strike. Sutton & Sons, a seed company that does its business by mail, puts its daily loss at $24,000. Littlewoods, the huge football-pools outfit, has had to lay off 8,000 of its 12,500-man staff. Few doubt that there will be a wave of bankruptcies reported at strike's end unless...
...history of surprising favorites. His mild personality on the court often puts him in the shadow of his opponent during pre-game warm-ups. But Atwood has one of the finest repertoire of shots in collegiate squash. In two intercollegiate tournaments, Atwood has upset the number one seed...
Brown is a particularly irritating opponent. Slow, young, and generally mediocre, the Bruins have been out scored this season, 83 to 74, yet they have managed to rack up a 13-6 record and fifth seed in the ECAC...
Robert Ludlum is an ex-actor whose first novel, The Scarlatti Inheritance, owes a large debt to histrionic melodrama. Its action encompasses the two World Wars. Its central figure-heir to the immense Scarlatti industrial fortune-is Ulster Scarlatti, a thoroughly bad seed who may be depraved but is certainly not deprived. Active duty as a younger scion in the U.S. Army during World War I infects him with a fondness for fascism. After the war, under the gullible noses of the family's financial advisers, he transfers huge sums of money to Europe. Then, poof! . . . he disappears...