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...Crackup. There the trail ended. But police and newsmen were also following another trail, into the two men's past. On the surface, tall, erudite Donald MacLean looked the very model of the modern British diplomat. He won honors at Cambridge, was a member of a respectable Scots family. His father, Sir Donald, was a leader of the Liberal Party, made such repetitious speeches that he inspired a parliamentary ditty: "Sir Donald MacLean, he says it over & over again." No stuffy diplomat, young MacLean loved gay parties; he and his attractive American wife often entertained in their Georgetown house...
Barring a major economic crackup, the Peróns are probably going to be around for some time. What can the U.S. do about it? In the past the U.S. has tried pressuring them and it has tried gentling them. Neither course stopped the Peróns from building up their Fascist-model state. Now, when the great North American republic has its hands full all over the world, it can do little more about the problem of the Peróns than: 11) maintain correct surface relations with them; 2) ask them for nothing; 3) give them nothing. Meanwhile...
...story, simple and moving as a child's nightmare, of Peter Taylor's first novel, A Woman of Means. By keeping his aim modest and his voice down, Author Taylor has written a good, if not a major, novel. One flaw: the stepmother's crackup is too feebly foreshadowed; when it comes it is as unexpected and as nearly incredible to the reader as it was to the boy. The boy, however, is a bright little minnow, dragged flopping and flashing out of a dark pool of childhood, one of the most vivid children of the year...
Jealous Gods. Italian-born Author Ruesch, who was a world-traveling racing-car driver until a crackup made a writer out of him, saves his sympathy for the Eskimos and his wrath for missionaries who, with "tea and keks," are trying to change the Eskimos' manners & morals. Readers who gobble up Author Ruesch's enticing fictional blubber-ball may never suspect that it is dialectical bear bait until the later pages, where an aged anga-kok (medicine man) sums up his people's primitive philosophy, and makes it sound as up-to-date as a modern university...
...jobs to pay his way through Massachusetts Institute of Technology. With a degree in chemical engineering, he landed a research job in the Studebaker plant at South Bend, Ind., but was soon booted out because he spent all his time fooling around with racing cars. After the Indianapolis crackup, he worked as a truck farmer's assistant, spotted the scraggly Cap Cod patch at Sandwich and bought it cheap...