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James Bruce, a gingerish Scottish aristocrat, was the first Briton to penetrate to the headwaters of the Blue Nile, at Lake Tana in Ethiopia. Bruce's intrusion into the "nightmarish fantasy of Ethiopian affairs," where he casually joined as it suited him one or another of the chronic little local wars, is a historic comedy with tragic forebodings. Bruce himself was an arrogant braggart, and Moorehead has great fun with his efforts to discredit the stories of missionaries who had been there before...
...standards, hardboiled, hard-drinking Bond is a pukka cad who divides his time between bedding beautiful women, downing four-star meals and killing counter-bounders, all with the same cool, clinical skill. SMERSH, the official Soviet murder agency, has been trying to bury 007 for years, but the canny Briton keeps on surviving bullets, knives, bombs, sharks and poisons, notably a paralyzing fluid extracted from the sexual organs of the Japanese globefish...
Money & Mobs. The impression of most Europeans who have traveled before in the U.S. is that the figures in the ads are "impossible." Said one Briton: "If you want to stay in the sort of place most people like staying in on holiday, have the sort of meals most people like to have in conditions that make meals a pleasure, three weeks' holiday in America would cost just about double what the ads say." Says Paris' Figaro: "The U.S. risks having a problem this summer in a mob of tourists who believe what they read. Despite claims, there...
Equally skillful in sorting the wheat from the chaff is O. (for Oscar) Henry Brandon, 45, of the London Sunday Times. Urbane, Czech-born Henry Brandon, a naturalized Briton, ranges with catholic and insatiable curiosity over the entire U.S., detailing everything from traffic jams to supermarkets. "Europe has become more and more Americanized," he says, "so Europeans are greatly interested in how the U.S. copes with such things." Best known for his probing interviews, he has lugged his tape recorder into sessions with Leonard Bernstein, Marilyn Monroe, Reinhold Niebuhr, Wernher von Braun, a spate of politicians from Nixon to Kennedy...
Hard on the heels of Russia's promise of a nuclear reactor destined for the University of Ghana came the appointment of the school's first professor of nuclear physics: a Briton who has been 15 years away from the field. Recipient of the chair (among several earmarked for "distinguished scholars from all parts of the world"): Alan Nunn May, 51, who served six years and eight months for giving atomic secrets to the Russians...