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...WILD SWAN by Monica Stirling. 383 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
Sophomore Jim Baker paced the rout with mile and two-mile victories over the best brace of runners on the Cadet squad. Baker took Jim Warner in the mile with a 4:14.5 clocking and set a meet record of 9:20.0 in the two-mile, beating Paul DeCoursey going away. DeCoursey, the Heptagonal cross-country champion, was running his only race...
...rejected the offer of troops unless they were sent directly to the dam. Into the copper-belt center of Ndola at week's end swooped ten British Javelin jet fighters, accompanied by big-bellied Argosy and Beverley transports carrying the squadron's maintenance supplies. A brace of Britannia turboprop transports arrived at Lusaka itself. To the south, Smith was sardonically amused. "It is in our interest to have law and order maintained in Zambia," he deadpanned in a television interview...
...LITTLE SAINT by Georges Simenon. 186 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World...
Also deserving of praise are Mario Mitchell (a girl), who played a brace of coy maidens without cloying; Rick Ashton, a minor player with a fine sense of timing; and Sandra Robertson, whose self-control kept several scenes from running off the track. For completeness' sake I suppose I ought to add that two or three of the remaining actors were awful...