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...story seems strange but simple. Harry Brace, a U.S. intelligence officer, is in charge of guarding a hidden U.S. nuclear warhead depot in a remote section of West Germany. Patrolling the dark forest around the depot, cutting his own orders, wearing civvies, chasing trout and women at his pleasure, he comes to feel like a feudal baron. Then he sees a sick fox and realizes that it may be rabid. But he does not kill it. Why? Unconsciously, he sees it as a companion in his own growing urge toward anarchy...
LORD BYRON'S WIFE (556 pp.)-Malcolm Elwin-Harcourt, Brace & World...
...bought for $3 apiece, or rented for as little as $1.50 a season, and their ravenous appetites make them more than a match for marauding Johnson grass-a hardy weed that sprouts between the cotton rows again and again, despite the heftiest doses of weed killer. A brace of the waddling birds can keep an acre of cotton weeded; a gaggle of twelve geese can gobble as much as a hard-working man can clear with a hoe. Cotton-goosing farmers save $20 per acre compared with the stiffer cost of chemical weeding. The only drawback to the system...
...FAMILIAR FACES (221 pp.)-David Garnett-Harcourt, Brace & World...
...with a change of flowers from time to time. "I get sheer pleasure out of painting that hat," he says. In any case, the device of painting hatted nudes seems to be uniquely Johnson's. Even the supremely nonchalant grisette caught picnicking in the buff with a brace of fully clad gentlemen in Manet's Le Déjeuner sur I'Herbe had the delicacy to remove her picture hat before sitting down to lunch...