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Hurdles--1 Quitzan, N.U., 7 5, 2 Ezeji-Okoye, H. 7 5, 3 Caldron...
Died. Jacqueline Susann, 53, strong-willed author whose creative caldron boiled over with lucrative tales of sex-and drug-happy celebrity types; of cancer; in Manhattan. The daughter of a successful portrait painter, Susann took up writing after an undistinguished stage career. But in her extensive promotional tours for Valley of the Dolls (1966), The Love Machine (1969), Once Is Not Enough (1973) and her nonfiction opus, Every Night, Josephine!, Susann kept her theatrical instincts well honed; she and her husband for 29 years, TV Producer Irving Mansfield helped make sure that even if her well-merchandized works were scorned...
...Caldron Cookery: An Authentic Guide for Coven Connoisseurs bv Marcello Truzzi, illustrated bv Victoria Chess. I 15 pages. Meredith. $3.95. Having exhausted everything from aardvark fried in yak butter to zabaglione a zingari, the compilers of cookbooks have turned to something really occult. Bats, eye of newt, serpents, felon's hands and less mentionable exotica seem to have formed the staple diet of the industrious witch. It should be said that this book serves no culinary purpose except perhaps to divert conversation among guests from the infamous concoctions some contemporary witch may happen to be serving in the name...
...Westy was too busy to engage in the labyrinthine stratagems needed to galvanize the Vietnamese into an effective defense of their own country. Vo Nguyen Giap, Westmoreland's opponent in Hanoi, was able to match every American move, pouring well-armed North Vietnamese troopers into the caldron below the Demilitarized Zone until they now account for better than 70% of the Communists' hard core troops. While South Vietnamese celebrated Tet, the lunar new year, Giap unleashed his general offensive...
...priests, who have been doing a thriving business casting spells and consulting the spirits for nervous clients. Temple altars in Port-au-Prince were bright with new candles, Christmas lights and eerie black-magic charms; sacrificial goats and doves were led to the slaughter. Like a witch's caldron, Haiti was once again coming to a boil, and no one wanted to be on the wrong side of the gods-or Papa...