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...assignment is to be Oppenheimer's driver and liaison with the native American population. As a well-traveled boxer and musician, Pena straddles two cultures. Oppenheimer calls him a "bebop Indian," though this is not an adequate description. But then, Los Alamos is a breeding ground of misapprehensions. Captain Augustino, the project security officer, is convinced that "Oppy" is passing information to the Soviets, while Klaus Fuchs, a real spy, fails to arouse the captain's suspicion. Anna Weiss, a mathematician who has escaped the Holocaust, gives the impression that she is frigid and unflappable. In fact, she is Pena...
...Pena, Augustino, Weiss and most of the other major characters in the novel are purely fictional. Oppenheimer, Fuchs, Edward Teller, General Leslie Groves and other walk-ons bear the names of actual people. The author is conspicuously selective about players who are not wholly owned subsidiaries of his imagination. For example, there is a part for Harry Gold, a confessed spy and Government witness in the case against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. But missing from the book is David Greenglass, Ethel's brother and an Army machinist on the Manhattan Project who later testified that he had provided Gold...
...winning creation, even though he stretches belief by conducting a lot of personal business as a noncom assigned to a supersecret project: trysting with Fraulein Weiss, trying to buy a nightclub, getting into shape for a high-stakes boxing match, taking care of Indian affairs and sidetracking Captain Augustino's plot to make Oppenheimer look like a Soviet...
Joining Della Terza will be Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, visiting professor of comparative literature and of romance languages and literatures, Brown University professor Franco Fido, and University of Rome professors Giulio Ferroni and Augustino Lombardi. Della Terza said all the participants were personal friends of Calvino...
...last leaving Nicaragua for home. The long planked pier at the Pacific port in which lay the transports Henderson and Antares creaked with the shuffle of 1790 brown shoes. Behind lay six years of bush warfare. Behind lay 20 officers and 115 men killed in action. Behind lay Revolutionist Augustino Sandino still at large. Behind lay President Juan Bautista Sacasa inaugurated day before with President Hoover's "warmest good wishes for a very successful administration." Behind lay one of the most controversial episodes in all U. S. foreign policy. Not left behind were 16 native girls whom 16 Marines...