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...what his sins are; he just lives in the dim suspicion that at some Last Stop the Great Dispatcher will explain everything. But he never gets there; imprisoned aboard the mysterious rattler, he can only hope to wedge his way past his fellow riders into the bar car and brace himself with a couple of neat shots. Somewhere, along toward the end of the day, he escapes into the waiting doors of his station wagon and is carried home-duped, looped and pooped-only to relive the nightmare next...
TAKE A GIRL LIKE You, by Kingsley Amis (320 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.95), recalls that before novelists ruined a good dodge by inventing realism, a writer could blather pleasantly for three volumes on nothing more substantial than "She shouldn't, but will she?" Now everyone assumes that she will, but should she? The question is of grave concern to young women, their parents, psychiatrists and friends, but it is not a very good theme for an entire novel. A snickering approach inevitably blasphemes against Freud, and a serious treatment defames Boccaccio. In this somewhat disappointing book, Kingsley (Lucky...
...bottom of a secret grave thousands of miles away in the desolate eastern Congo bush. Patrice Lumumba, ex-beer salesman, ex-embezzler, ex-Premier, was dead. Russia was obviously preparing to make the most of it, and Stevenson quickly got on the telephone to tell Washington to brace itself for the onslaught...
Doctors were optimistic at first, but the melanoma spread to his back. Thin, exhausted and in pain, Dooley checked into a Hong Kong hospital last November, was fitted with a brace ("my Iron Maiden") that extended from his shoulders to his hips. "I am not going to quit," Dooley insisted, with a typical touch of melodrama. "I will continue to guide and lead my hospitals until my back, my brain, my blood and my bones collapse...
...spinal fusion. It failed, and Kennedy contracted a near-fatal staphylococcus infection. Another operation four months later was successful, and novocain treatments broke the cycle of muscle spasms. The President still must wear a quarter-inch riser in the heel of his left shoes and sneakers, and a small brace to support his back muscles...