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Heading the President's K.B.L. (New Society Movement) ticket is Superwife Imelda, 48, who has served as the flamboyant, can-do governor of metropolitan Manila since 1975. The leader of the opposition party, Strength of the Nation (known as Laban, for its constant battle cry), is Marcos' bitterest political rival, Benigno S. Aquino Jr., a former Liberal...
Under the bitterest torments of nature, Scott and his companions reach the South Pole, only to find the Norwegian flag mocking them. On the horrible trek back, the men die one by one, with only the cruel snow to mourn and bury them...
Lebanon and Greek-Turkish clashes on Cyprus. Their bitterest enemies are a group of restless thugs between the ages of 16 and 25 known as Raggare (for their habit of cruising around-ragga in Swedish-in big old American cars). According to one Raggare, the Assyrians are "blackskulls" who deserve to be attacked because "they live off welfare. They sleep until 2. They chase after our Swedish girls." Along with the gypsies and other immigrant groups, they pose the threat of social change, something that neither the hard-drinking, working-class Raggare nor many law-abiding Swedes are willing...
Even with his humorous and noble style intact, Lancelot is Percy's bitterest novel, written not with the black humor of alienation but with the crotchety distemper of a curmudgeon. It does not add to Lancelot Edwarde Lamar's credibility as an existential visionary that he speaks from a private cell in a mental hospital, reflecting on his incineration of his adulterous wife and her lover on his family estate. There is a sense that Percy feels ambivalent towards a character who might be his spokesman and who might also be crazy...
...three-fourths of the nation shivered under the bitterest cold spell in memory, most Americans set their jaws against the subnormal temperatures and simply carried on. TIME correspondents and writers were no exception as they struggled to report this week's cover story on the Big Freeze. Typical of the survival gear sported by many Americans to meet this challenge was that of two Chicago staffers: Bureau Chief Benjamin Cate, who wore his full ski regalia, and Correspondent Madeleine Nash, who donned suddenly fashionable long Johns and a quilted down jacket...