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Isaksson actually began his athletic career as a gymnast, bouncing away with a brace of trophies in his native Harnosand. When he was a teen-ager he moved to Stockholm. "His first day there," his mother recalls, "he asked me if he could go to the athletic field in Sundbyberg. How could I say no? He came home later with two gold medals. He had won the high jump, and then borrowed a bamboo pole and won the pole vault...
THEGODFORGOTTEN by GLADYS SCHMITT 312 pages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
...sometimes obtuse. A new book. The World of George Orwell, edited by Miriam Gross, is full of pictures and reminiscenses of friends. And for those who want to have all of Orwell the four volumes of Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell published in paper by Harcourt Brace Jovanovach are unsurpassed. Although Orwell asked in his will that he be spared the indignity of a biography, one is one the way. Peter Stansky will publish a full biography in the Fall...
Nonetheless, the unmistakable objective of the current North Vietnamese drive is the overthrow of the Saigon regime. And if events in South Vietnam should soon reach a stage where Washington feels it must act decisively to save the regime, even at the expense of the Moscow summit, we must brace for the possibility of further American escalation in the war. There are several possibilities for what form this new escalation might take: sustained bombing of North Vietnam above the 20th Parallel, air raids on Hanoi and Haiphong, the destruction of North Vietnam's irrigation dikes, or the use of tactical...
...pages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...