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...story. I offer this quote "His eyes followed her without moving his head as a man watches an art trying to crawl out of a glass." As for James Chance's "Home is the Sailor," suffice it to say that a combination of James M. Cain ("Mark lit another Camel . . .") and James Joyce (". . . casting a net around Harvard-Yale Andover Exeter Groton Amherst Williams in Doe speramus.") is appalling...
...schoolteacher, 49-year-old Owen Lattimore grew up in China. He roamed the high, bitter steppes and the burning deserts of Asia's hinterlands, became the familiar of Uzbek traders and Mongolian camel herders, and his honeymoon was a trek by camel, sled and shaggy pony through Chinese Turkestan...
Ending the program, five Wellesley and Radcliffe girls were brought to the platform and asked to vote between Camel Cigarettes and Leverett House, with Leverett winning four...
...Orenburg, since renamed Chkalov in honor of the famed Soviet flyer who in 1937 hopped over the North Pole to the U.S.* His father was presumably a Cossack subaltern. Orenburg, on the southern flank of the Urals, where Europe meets Asia, was in those days a terminal for camel caravans from Turkestan. It also had the reputation of being a restless, independent place. The Cossacks and peasants of the Orenburg region had mounted one of the most troublesome popular uprisings of the 18th Century against Catherine the Great, an event made memorable for all Russians in Pushkin...
Legrand, 56, does not seem the sort of man to drift about the desert on a camel. Dapper and urbane, he sports a neatly clipped little mustache and a lavender-scented breast-pocket handkerchief, confesses an abiding love for good Parisian food and old brandy. But he loves Morocco more and, except for annual business trips to Paris, plans to stay there. "There are two kinds of time," he explains, "European and African. In Europe you count time by the year; in Africa you count it by thousands of years. The land and the people of Morocco are primitive...