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Climatically, historically and emotionally, the Congo is many lands. Even when the Congo's radios and telephones were working again, orders from Leopoldville would scarcely be heard, understood or heeded by the equatorial Logo craftsman, the fiercely independent Lokele fisherman or the Balamba villager of Katanga. Scattered through a land roughly the size of the U.S. east of the Mississippi, the Congo's 150 major tribes speak 38 different languages, observe a bewildering variety of rites ranging from lip tattooing to magic rain making...
...Three times before Sugar Ray Robinson had won back his middleweight championship in rematches, but the greatest craftsman of his day was only a floundering 40-year-old as he tried to regain the comic-opera title of New York and Massachusetts from a pug named Paul Pender. After losing a split decision in Boston, even the Sugar seemed to feel he was finished: "I just didn't have what it takes. I didn't do nothing. I lost...
...Salk himself. The commercial vaccine, he declared unequivocally, is only 50% effective (on the average) after a single shot. By simple arithmetic, he argued that two shots would be 75% effective, and three shots, 87.5%. Dr. Salk contrasted this with the efficacy of the hand-tooled vaccine made with craftsman care in his University of Pittsburgh laboratories: 90% effective after one shot, 99% after two, and 99.9% after three. Commercial vaccine, he said, can be brought up to this high standard...
Toys in the Attic. In one of Broadway's rare original plays, Lillian (The Little Foxes) Hellman once more proves herself both craftsman and writer, powerfully examines a weak ne'er-do-well (Jason Robards Jr.) and his maiden sisters (Anne Revere, Maureen Stapleton...
...typical Eric Ambler reader-a man who, in his own fancy, wears a belted raincoat and knows an automatic from a revolver-places himself in the author's hands as he would commit himself to those of a trusted bartender. He is entirely confident of the craftsman's skill and gratefully aware that such competence is increasingly rare. The latest Ambler amble (his first in four years) is less umbrous than such cloak-and-Luger exercises as A Coffin for Dimitrios and The Schirmer Inheritance, but it should be no disappointment...