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...BOON ISLAND (275 pp.)-Kenneth Roberts-Doubleday...
Novelist Kenneth (Northwest Passage) Roberts likes men who pull their weight. His heroes are generally fellows whose characters are compounded of the good, old-fashioned virtues, and their crises sometimes find them with little but hope to sustain them under pressure. His new novel, Boon Island-the first since Lydia Bailey in 1947-is a grim little tale of survival. Based on a true story, it tells of a shipwreck in which each man's size and courage are fully measured during 24 days of simple horror...
...that oil has been found in the Negeb, we will never leave," said one Israeli. At any rate, the Negeb's boon was not going to make any easier U.S. Secretary of State Dulles' effort to persuade Israel to cede some of the desert to the Arabs in return for a peace treaty...
...almost everything. Blue Plate Policy coupons provide for food; Blue Blanket coverage takes care of shelter, clothing and babies; the Blue Bolt "war and disaster complex of policies" insures against all misfortune-all except for the misfortune of being pronounced Class E and therefore "completely uninsurable." Most marvelous boon of all is the "Suspension Vaults." A policyholder stricken with "radiation" poisoning (a common ailment), or dying of disease for which The Company scientists have not yet found a cure, may sign his life into abeyance at the Clinic, receive a simple injection and get himself filed away inside a clear...
Scientist Libby. for all his years at work inside the secrets of atomic energy, has never seen an atomic explosion, and does not want to. His main concern has long been not the atomic boom, but the atomic boon. It was because of his interest in the peaceful atom that he fell so naturally into his key role at Geneva's revolutionary conclave...