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...York these days," mused Bernard Murphy, news editor of the London Star, after a 7½hour transatlantic jet flight to this country, "is really no farther away than Newcastle." This perspective, which can be applied almost as well to Little Rock, Cape Canaveral and Hollywood, is now common coin on Fleet Street. As a result, the British press is busy discovering the U.S.-or at least trying to discover...
...other side of the coin is professor Charles Blitzer of Yale's Political Science department, who received his Ph.D. here. "By and large I guess I'm for Harvard," he says, "except, as seems the case now, when they are heavily favored. Then my instincts for the underdog are aroused...
Ground Stroke. In Windsor Locks, Conn., when the cops made broad insinuations about Kaston Gailius by testifying in court that when they nabbed him, his eyes were watery, his face was flushed and he could not pick up a coin from the floor, Gailius won an acquittal by explaining that sinus trouble had made him teary, he had been sunburned, and he was exhausted from a game of tennis...
...When I saw them march onto that field," says Team Captain Brock Strom, "I got to admit I got kind of choked up." Strom, a burly tackle, wept as he went to midfield for the toss of the coin. "After seeing the rest of the cadets march in,'' says Martin, "I knew our team would rather have died right on the field than fail them." The Falcons promptly played Iowa off its feet for a stunning...
...OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN, by Pierre Boulle (281 pp.; Vanguard; $3.50), is another one of those novels that try to prove that good and kind Americans are really dumb Americans. Ironic Frenchman Boulle (The Bridge over the River Kwai) is too blasé to join forces openly with embittered Briton Graham (The Quiet American) Greene, but he makes it plain in his book that there is no place for naive, warmhearted U.S. do-gooders in cold-war country. True to his Gallic instincts, he makes his American boob a woman. Patricia is the wife of a Frenchman who expertly...