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...wounded as a captain in France during World War I but did not see action again until the landing in Salerno in September 1943. He first piqued the nation's imagination a year earlier, when he was smuggled into Algeria by submarine on a mostly successful cloak-and-dagger mission to win French support for the imminent Allied invasion of North Africa. Known for his humor and daring, Clark was nearly killed on several occasions while leading his troops; he once personally spearheaded an attack on 18 German tanks. His polyglot force included 26 nationalities, as well...
...stuff that's easy to write. More impressive is the author's ability to portray everday American life in an entertaining manner. There is a Harvard secretary who moonlights as an amateur detective until she meets a real one. There is the aggressive Congressional aide who draws a little dagger next to the name of the CIA official his boss is about to roast. There is the CIA bureaucrat who lusts for his bosses possessions...
...secrecy, intrigue and rampant speculation made it seem more like a cloak-and-dagger thriller than just the introduction of a new product. For nearly a year, computer buffs, retailers and IBM's competitors have anxiously awaited the appearance of a home computer by the industry's giant (1982 sales: $34.4 billion). IBM repeatedly denied that the product even existed, but newspapers and trade journals were filled with speculation about the new machine and its expected announcement date. Late last week the guesswork grew frenzied. After the Boston Globe published what it called a photograph of the home...
Enough cloak-and-dagger skulduggery? Wait, there may be more. Harper is being held without bail for a hearing Oct. 27. If convicted of espionage, he faces life imprisonment. If Harper talks some more, the big question is what he might say about William B. Hugle, an engineer-businessman in his late 50s who founded several Silicon Valley electronics firms...
...dinosaurs. Others, like the long-necked Brontosaurus, the archetypal dinosaur of cartoons, were gentle, browsing vegetarians. In spite of their comparatively small brains, dinosaurs were not dumb, floundering brutes. Deinonychus, for instance, was a fleet, two-footed creature with scimitar-like claws on its hind legs, grasping hands and dagger-sharp teeth. It apparently hunted in packs, in the manner of wolves. Stegoceras perhaps employed the thick dome on its skull in sexual combat, as an elk uses its horns. Dinosaurs may even have had nurturing, maternal instincts. The recent discovery in Montana of the fossilized remains of tiny baby...