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...Lebanese capital, the shells zooming overhead produced a piercing whistle that sounded at first like some strange aircraft preparing for a landing. But moments later, the hills shuddered and burst into flame. Along the ridge that ascends abruptly behind Beirut, columns of smoke rose into the clear autumn...
After wilting during much of the summer, the stock market began autumn last week with an auspicious performance. The Dow Jones industrial average twice established new highs, breaking the previous record of 1248.30 set on June 16. The index rose 15.25 points on Tuesday to close at 1249.19, then slipped 5.9 points on Wednesday, but went up 14.23 points on Thursday to 1257.52. It slid 1.93 on Friday to finish the week at 1255.59, up 29.88 points...
...dismay of West German and U.S. officials, the young wife's attitude is becoming commonplace. Weeks before the start of an expected "hot autumn" of major demonstrations against NATO's plan to begin deploying Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe by December, tensions are rising between peace activists and the 249,000 U.S. troops based in the country. Only last week West German police dismantled a "peace camp" outside the Mutlangen depot...
...Died-an exception among her novels, since neither clergymen nor anthropologists figure in it-is about a vain, middle-aged beauty who drives out her tenant, Miss Foxe, an ancient who lugs buckets of paraffin up several flights of stairs to heat her top-floor flat. In Quartet in Autumn, Pym's bleakest and most critically acclaimed book, two women and two men who share an office regard retirement with a collective dread. Their work may be inconsequential and boring, but it is their only real hold on life...
Throughout, she was strictly true to what she knew. There are almost no children in her fiction, no politics or worldly intrigue, and very few excursions abroad. Death is only significant in Quartet in Autumn and A Few Green Leaves, which were written after she knew that she had cancer. She also knew, at the end, that she was back in the mainstream. That sense of triumph must have informed the closing words of Quartet in Autumn, in which unaccustomed events "at least . . . made one realize that life still held infinite possibilities for change." -By Martha Duffy