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...Tour was a flop in Britain, but the album's songs from the show are agreeably Beatley. They include a softly' sudsy ditty called The Fool on the Hill; a toe-tapping piece that may serve as a generational link, Your Mother Should Know ("though she was born a long, long time ago"); and a wild lark called I Am the Walrus, with fast, fractured Lennonesque lyrics: "Man, you been a naughty boy. You let your face grow long." Side 2 contains such classics as Penny Lane, Strawberry Fields Forever, and the youthfully poignant Hello Goodbye...
TOLSTOY, by Henri Troyat. Making masterful use of mountains of documents and diaries, the Russian-born biographer forges an unforgettable portrait of one of literature's greatest figures...
Giap, 56, was not born to the bush. The son of a poor but educated landholder in what is now North Viet Nam, he was sent to an exclusive college in the old imperial capital of Hué, got a law degree from the French-run University of Hanoi and finally emerged as a history teacher at Hanoi's Thang Long School. His idol, even then, was Napoleon. "He could step to the blackboard," one of his former students recalls, "and draw in the most minute detail every battle plan of Napoleon." But his admiration for the French stopped...
Although he is a skipper without a ship, Danish-born Svend T. Simonsen, 59, has been taking a remarkably rewarding cruise through the $3 billion-a-year pleasure-boating business. So many ex-landlubbers are signing up for Simonsen's correspondence courses in piloting and celestial navigation that his Coast Navigation School in Santa Barbara, Calif., took in a total of $85,000 last year. His income may not qualify him as a tycoon, but the captain wins high marks for return on an original investment...
Satisfied Graduates. With the captain busily grading lessons and his English-born wife June handling advertising, the Coast Navigation School, headquartered in a modest suite of offices in Santa Barbara, is working overtime to keep up with a current enrollment of 1,100; and it gets 500 new inquiries a month from as far off as Egypt and Thailand, to say nothing of G.I.s in Viet...