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...danger of being distracted by Marianne Hardwick, a beautiful woman who lives on the island with her two young sons while her husband runs his huge chemical company and philanders back home in Chicago. Their love affair is passionate and brief; she sends him packing when he will not abandon risky underwater explorations and his dream of wealth. But spies employed by Marianne's husband have caught her and Mark on film in compromising positions. He is in big trouble even before he finds a haul worth $300 million...
...second cousin to the devil. Reach me a rose, honey, and pour me a last drop into that there crystal glass.' " In The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Muriel Spark's prepubescent girls wonder, as children always will: " 'Miss Brodie said they clung to each other with passionate abandon on his last leave.' 'I don't think they took their clothes off, though,' Sandy said. 'Do you?' 'No. I can't see it,' said Jenny. 'I wouldn't like to have sexual intercourse,' Sandy said. 'Neither would I. I'm going to marry a pure person.' 'Have a toffee...
Emotionally cornered and widely condemned, the whites of South Africa are the prisoners of a status quo that is murderous to sustain and suicidal to abandon. Their response to this dilemma is not in itself surprising: the more their racist system is branded as offensive, the more defensive, and dangerous, they become. "The first habit we instill," says Hennie van der Merwe, "is the habit not to ask questions...
Icahn has made no formal bid to take control of the company, but he has had private meetings with TWA officials. At first the raider suggested that TWA should abandon many domestic routes and sell off parts of the airline. But he quickly backed away from that proposal after TWA officials contended it would not be feasible because the airline needs its domestic routes to feed passengers into its overseas flights. Wall Streeters doubt that Icahn will be successful in overhauling TWA. They point out that he would run into a maze of regulatory and financing problems. Said one industry...
...Weitzman may at first appear to be his profession's version of a snake-oil salesman. In his new book The Share Economy (Harvard; $15), Weitzman claims to have found a cure-all that will end both unemployment and inflation. The trick, he says, is for U.S. industry to abandon the practice of paying fixed wages and adopt a scheme that would compensate workers in relation to their employers' revenues or profits...