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Maxwell 4 2-3 10. Bird 14 5-5 33. Parish 8 1-4 17. Archibald 8 4-6 20. Ford 3 2-4 8. Carr 1 3-4 5. McHale 3 0-2 6. Robey 0 0-0 0. Henderson 2 1-2 5. Duerod 0 0-0 0. Totals...
...lending-library readers. For too long, detective fiction has been populated with deliberately unusual sleuths-omniscient priests and wonder rabbis, black, Oriental and Indian investigators whose ethnicity is more important than their cases. If Arkady has any equivalent it is George Smiley, the resolutely unglamorous star of John le Carré's spyworks. Like Smiley, Arkady has an inconstant wife; like him he is beset with interdepartmental intrigue and divided loyalties...
This is no small achievement for any novel. For what is essentially an espionage tale, it is a signal for rejoicing. In Arkady Renko, the U.S.S.R. finally has an exportable sleuth. In Martin Cruz Smith, 38, the U.S. at last has a domestic Le Carré. -By Stefan Kanfer...
...intelligence, rose through the ranks of the British Secret Service to head it between 1973 and 1978, and who was believed to be the inspiration for both "M," the intelligence chief in Ian Fleming's James Bond novels, and George Smiley, the deceptively bland hero of John le Carré thrillers like Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; of cancer; in London. In 1979 Oldfield emerged from a brief retirement to head an antiterrorist security force in Northern Ireland following the assassination of Earl Mountbatten by the Provisional I.R.A...
...names Dale Valiscenti, Doug Horton, Bob Poile, Tom Carr and Jack Burke will not go down in the annals of Harvard Hockey history as superstars. But largely due to their efforts, Harvard can now boast of its first undefeated hockey team in 70 years...