Word: colonels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Though The Widower's Sons falls far short of that earlier mark, it still captures the individual class-struggle that is Sillitoe's strength. His latest book deals with William Scorton, a sargeant major's son, who through relentless work and discipline, rises to the rank of colonel and marries a brigadier's daughter. England's Great Depression era army becomes his life, starting when his widowed father drills him in cartography at the age of seven and ending with the disintegration of his civilian marriage over 30 years later...
Sillitoe contrasts his military prowess and civilian naivete through his sexual initiation with two sisters. His treatment of the two shop girls and their family is both comic and penetrating. Later, when retired colonel Scorton manages a bowling and billiards hall, Sillitoe again shows his feel for common people through his description of the clintele. His portrait of Scorton's underling, named Oxton, is the book's best characterization. The retired gunner is a lovable bachelor dependent on the need to serve...
...Arab sheiks have the foreign exchange which the West desperately needs, they also have the economic power to demand choice weaponry, like F-14 fighter jets and computer-guided missiles. Of course, they often burden themselves with equipment they cannot operate, repair or even find a use for. But Colonel Gaddafi of Libya still buys tanks by the thousands...
...several instances, Harvard development teams have parted on less than amicable terms with host countries. After Colonel Acheampong's military takeover in 1972, the government of Ghana asked Harvard to pack its bags. And when a military junta took over in Greece in 1967. Harvard terminated a contract with the Greek government...
...DIED. Colonel Jacob M. Arvey, 81, Chicago's Democratic boss in the late 1940s and kingmaker instrumental in Harry Truman's narrow 1948 presidential victory; after a series of heart attacks; in Chicago. The son of poor Russian Jewish immigrants, Arvey rang doorbells for ward politicians as a teen-ager while he worked his way through law school. He became the epitome of the back-room politician, and engineered many a political career, persuading an ex-assistant to the Secretary of the Navy named Adlai Stevenson to run for the governorship of Illinois and a University of Chicago...