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...hand it to Safire, who often sportingly supplies the antidote to his own poison. On a trip to London he reported that "the average Briton" was horrified by the Lance affair: "Once again the American press seems to be engaged in 'breaking' a President... So I tell my British friends that the real stability of American government is in our public sense of constitutional morality, and that the press is doing the Carter presidency a favor," etc. Safire, however, then prints the reply of an English friend: "I would be more inclined to believe you if you chaps...
Frederick Forsyth With three phenomenal successes behind him, Novelist Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal, The Odessa File, The Dogs of War) at 39 has sworn off writing. "It's a grind, a sweat," he says. A Briton, Forsyth left England in 1974 to escape having to pay an 83% tax on royalties. After a year in Spain, he and his Ulster-born wife Carrie settled in Ireland, where they bought and refurbished Kilgarron, an 18th century manor house surrounded by 25 acres of woodland in County Wicklow. When things are dull, the Forsyths go to Dublin or London...
...whose spectral face stares down from its frame in Smiley's office. The relationship of the opposing spymasters, playing international chess for men's souls, is worth a book in itself. Karla is an evil genius who once instructed his mole to seduce Smiley's wife?to make the Briton doubt his motives for suspecting Haydon. Smiley's pure, patriotic zeal is simplified, and distorted, by his thirst for revenge...
...slight favorite, more on the basis of potential than proven ability (they had finished second to the Fort Lauderdale Strikers in the Eastern Division). The New Yorkers kicked and clawed their way through four play-off rounds en route to the championship. In the end, it was an unheralded Briton named Steve Hunt-not Pelé-who led the Cosmos to victory in Soccer Bowl-77 with a goal and an assist...
That is the non-IATA creation of Freddie Laker, the fast-talking Briton who has long been trying to crack lATA's monopoly on scheduled service between London and New York City by offering a daily, no-frills, nonreservation shuttle service at a round-trip price of just $236 (v. $631 for a 14-21 day summer excursion fare). IATA members vehemently opposed him, warning that his "Skytrain" service would hurt the scheduled carriers on the New York-London run and compel them to cut their losses by curtailing flights on less profitable routes elsewhere. Well, surprise. Now that...