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...fatigues and beret: "Disappointing . . . is a distinctively English, meiotic expression." Wherever Oakes settles in, a pair of alluring hazel eyes cannot be far away. This time they are blinked by Catalina Urrutia, a Cuban translator, moralist and flirt. After the requisite tango, the CIA man and the beautiful bilinguist end up in the percales. Heavy breathing leads to weighty revelations, and the smitten Catalina shows Blackford her ultimate secret: four medium-range Soviet ballistic missiles hidden in the hinterland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fly on the Wall See You Later Alligator by William F. Buckley Jr. | 2/4/1985 | See Source »

...Tongues. St. Laurent was born 63 years ago at Compton, Quebec, near the Vermont border. He is a polished, flawless bilinguist by inheritance: his father was a French Canadian merchant, his mother a first generation Irish Canadian. ("I didn't know at first there were two languages in Canada. I just thought there was one way to talk to my father and another way to talk to my mother...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: No. 2 Man | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

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