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Jorge Luis Borges is a quiet, delicate, blind old man who lives in Argentina. Though he has been writing for nearly 50 years, hardly anyone in the U.S. had heard of him until a decade ago. Today, especially among the literate young, he is recognized all over the world as a brilliant, exotic and curiously endearing literary figure. Borges is a poet as well as a prose master. But his most characteristic creations are unique short stories, which he calls ficciones. They can be unmistakably identified by their brevity, clear, laconic style, humor, and dependency on such devices as mazes...
...student in Europe during World War I, Borges was greatly influenced by the Symbolist poets and Ultraism, a literary offshoot of Dadaism. Later, back in Argentina, he wrote poetry and essays for avant-garde journals, and edited anthologies of Argentine literature, including a book of detective stories. But it was not until the late '30s that Borges wrote Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, one of the first and perhaps best known of his short fictions...
...John Kennedy's assassination touched off false stories that Lyndon Johnson had immediately succumbed to a heart attack. Conversely, ambiguous evidence of a public figure's death will almost certainly provoke rumors that he is alive. Some people believe that Hitler is still at large in Argentina or Paraguay; others contend that J.F.K. carries on a vegetable-like existence in a well-guarded private hospital. Long after his death, many of his fans believed that he was alive, but hopelessly disfigured, in a hospital somewhere...
...Dealers. The combination of AMC and Jeep is so natural that both companies have considered it for seven years; they finally agreed when the price was right. The two companies are partners in a new auto plant in Iran; they are also affiliated in Argentina, where AMC uses Jeep engines, and in Mexico, where Jeep buys its engines from American. American will take over Kaiser's auto plants in 34 countries, acquire a new line for its 2,400 dealers at home, and likely gain much-needed recruits among Jeep's 1,600 dealers, some of whom will...
...less than two years, five of the best-known U.S. passenger ships have been laid up indefinitely: American Export's Atlantic, Independence and Constitution and Moore-McCormack's Brasil and Argentina...