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...sunk into oblivion in the troubled waters of the world. That the United Nations still exists today, that after 15 years it offers achievement and potential far beyond that of any previous international organization, is due in no small part to the successes and ideals of an international public servant who lost his life in its service...
...story and occasionally interrupt with provocative questions. It is a picaresque short novel, narrated by its hero, who was born a serf, trained as an outrider, and who became in turn a thief, a Tartar captive and husband of Tartar wives, a soldier, a horse dealer, a civil servant, an actor and a novice in a monastery-always resigned to his fate, yet full of curiosity and humor, always interested in the experience of being a Russian in gigantic and diverse Mother Russia. The Wanderer is a credible symbol of his people and his century, and his story reminds...
Born. To Cecile Dionne Langlois, 27, prettiest and sprightliest of the four surviving Dionne quints, and Philippe Langlois, 30, television technician turned provincial civil servant: twin boys, their third and fourth, in the first multiple birth in six Dionne-daughter confinements; in Quebec City...
...stay, cheering crowds swarmed about him. Yuri invariably handled them with all the charm and poise of a professional diplomat (unlike Britain's protocol department, which was put into such a blue funk by Yuri's uninvited, unofficial visit that it sent only a minor civil servant to the airport to greet him). At a press conference in the Trade Fair's fashion hall, so many Yuri fans crashed in that Fleet Street newshawks, among the world's most agile and aggressive, barely got in any professional questions. Instead, Yuri tactfully fielded such inane queries...
JIMMY RIDDLE, by Ian Brook (317 pp.; Putnam; $3.95) has as its hero the Walter Mitty ideal of every British public-school boy who grew up to be a frustrated colonial civil servant. Blond, bronzed and rugged, Jimmy Riddle is district commissioner of darkest Alabasa province in an unnamed British Colony in West Africa, a living legend to his fellow officers, and the sex-dreamboat of their wistful wives. In the end, Riddle turns against his own bumbling government, gets together with the Balabasa of Alabasa, the paramount chief and head of the Python Cult, and declares Alabasa an independent...