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...Rockefeller. I had a rather curious dream of speaking at some sort of a rally and going a bit too long and Rockefeller standing up in the middle and taking over the microphone on an applause line...
Classes resumed at Kabul University, and the rug merchants in the bazaars haggled over prices with all of their prerevolutionary aggressiveness. About the only gunfire that could be heard in the city came when the newspapers reappeared. Citizens were so curious about the Communist reformers who in a bloody, 36-hour battle had toppled the feckless, dynastic government led by President Mohammed Daoud that they literally scrambled for the first post-coup editions. On one truck, troops who had a few copies were so besieged that they fired in the air in self-defense...
...occupation until recently was wife and keeper to a wealthy drunk. David and Elizabeth are old friends, but when they meet for the first time as free-floating singles, each is edgy and hesitant. Before long the reader sees an additional advantage to the subject of divorce and the curious second adolescence that follows a marital split. For American society in most of its aspects is too fluid and amorphous to sustain a comedy of manners (since all manners are equally acceptable). Divorce follows an intricate set of rules, some codified by lawyers and some worked out anew by each...
After eight curious years, Kidde finds a flush investor...
...lawyer named James P. Wohl, 41-shows himself a young master of the medium. His antihero, Joe Talon, is a superefficient analyst of satellite photos for the CIA in Manhattan. He is also an unrepentantly laid-back hankerer for the surf-and-grass California scene. When Talon detects a curious and erroneous-or doctored?-cloud cover masking a remote area of Nepal, he bucks the Establishment to prove his suspicions, survives sundry assassination attempts and blows open a nasty conspiracy within the Company. He also manages a rather touching love affair and some motorcycle exploits worthy of Evel Knievel...