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...huckstering peer, John, Duke of Bedford, 48, is peddling The Duke of Bedford's Book of Snobs, a 142-page guide to gate crashing the Establishment, in which he details his rules on the names one should have (Rodney is "not so good today"); on accents ("The military bark is the safest bet"); on dress (suits may be elegantly aged by "filling the pockets with stones and hanging them out in the rain"). His Grace's advice on that "macro-snob" tradition, the weekend houseparty: "Do not go to bed with the hostess unless it is really necessary...
Stop the Music. Saigon's suburban battle seldom makes the headlines. It is still largely the sentry's war of short, sharp encounters: the bark of a close rifle, the sudden cough of automatic weapons, the crump of a single mortar, occasionally a scream as a knife finds its way through a rib cage. An "incident" may be anything from the skirmish of a dozen men to the blare of a propaganda bullhorn; whatever their nature, incidents are on the increase along the Gia Dinh perimeter. From February to April they averaged 37 a month. Through July...
...FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). In "The Bow Wow Affair," THRUSH tries a putsch with some pooches, but Napoleon Solo and Illya have the last bark. Repeat...
...Blimpish Bark. Last week the Union debated the same resolution (now, of course, "for Queen and Country"), and the storm was almost as violent. The man responsible was Tariq Ali, 21, a publicity-happy Pakistani studying at Oxford's Exeter College, who as president of the Union selects the topic of its weekly debates. His choice won him threats from Britain's fledgling Ku Klux Klan ("Watch out, you dirty wog"), four television appearances (worth $56), and 18 newspaper interviews. Letters poured in to editors, who responded with crisp editorials, and the BBC said it would televise...
...emotional suspensions that have no geographical limits. Gradwell, in The Pet, hates the bulldog kept by his white employers: "Symbol of all the white man's savage glee in turning the black man from his door." But the dog is something of a misfit himself: he refuses to bark at strangers, ignores the bitch brought around for mating purposes. He is indeed a great, slobbering, sheepish failure "always conscious of wrongdoing." Hate turns to sympathy, as Gradwell recognizes his kinship with this other outsider: "He broke off a piece of bread and threw it, saying in his own language...