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...plays it straight enough of the time to keep kicking Shamus along at a reasonably swift rate. Reynolds is a randy private detective from Brooklyn named McCoy, who is hired by a rich businessman to recover some stolen diamonds. The whole business is pretty shady, and McCoy gets roughed up or punched out in every scene where he is not bantering with or bedding a society type (Dyan Cannon) from Sutton Place. The plot makes no sense, although it tries. It all ends with one of those tenuous solutions that raise more questions than they actually answer...
...time to make their effects felt. Many U.S. exports are high-technology products-computers and jetliners, for example-that do not always realize a quick increase in sales when the price comes down. Many U.S. imports, such as inexpensive radios, have little domestic competition and do not suffer a swift sales slide when prices rise. Thus, it is easy to foresee a sequence in which new currency realignments would disappoint dollar holders by not changing the basic situation quickly enough. Triffin gloomily foresees a period of "two or three dollar crises a year...
...much political leaders, a common species, as something far more rare and precious: critics." The essays he has collected here may constitute their own persuasive evidence in behalf of Octavio Paz's priorities. The author once wrote a literary want ad describing the need for "an Indonesian Swift or an Arab Voltaire." He pretty well fills that job himself...
...Thomas and Leon Wagner, Third, 10. A softball league in Washington, 11. Elmer Valo. 12. The St. Louis Cardinals. 13. The Steelers took Len Dawson: the Browns. Jimmy Brown. 14. Doug Swift. 15. Layden, Studeher, Miller and Crawley. 16. The Chicago Bears...
Department finally sees trouble coming in an underdeveloped country. The new President must offer substantive policy rather than the swift rebuttal, a constant flow of economic aid rather than swift bursts when an irresponsible leader starts veering to the Left...