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...asylum in Israel. Many Sovietologists suspect that the eleven walked into a trap prepared by the KGB, the Soviet secret police. For one thing, they were arrested before they even set foot aboard the plane. Within an hour after their arrest, 40 Jewish homes from Riga to distant Kharkov were ransacked by policemen with search warrants. During the next six months, in several Soviet cities there were large-scale arrests of Jews, nine of whom are scheduled to be tried next month...
...Americus Kinsolving, was a Virginia pastor and a spy for the Confederacy. His grandfather, Lucien Lee Kinsolving, was a missionary bishop in Brazil. His late father, Arthur B. Kinsolving II, was chaplain at West Point and, later, Bishop of Arizona. His great-uncle George was Bishop of Texas. A distant cousin, Charles J. Kinsolving III, is currently Bishop of New Mexico. Yet probably no Kinsolving has ever been heard by a wider audience-and certainly none has gone after an audience more flamboyantly-than acerbic, peripatetic Lester, an Episcopal pastor turned religion columnist, whose angry newspaper crusades reach more than...
...best-known artist who ever lived." He is certainly the chronicler of one American dream, with its gawky Huck Finns, jolly G.I.s, laundered blacks and apple-cheeked mothers in bifocals; its flags, turkeys, sneakers and little clapboard banks. Today Rockwell's America may seem almost as distant as Thomas More's Utopia, but this sumptuous tome pleasurably suggests why his genre pieces, painterly apple-pie to the last brush stroke, defined a whole area of solid comfort and nostalgic selfesteem...
...fine enough when you're dealing with styles- and that is what Wolfe claims to be dealing with- but it's a pretty inadequate method of dealing with what must be recognized as a social problem. True enough, the oppression the Panthers encounter can only be heard as a distant echo within the Bernstein duplex. There is something funny in the Bernsteins' noblesse oblige. But to treat the Panthers' predicament as equally amusing- "Lenny reaches up from out of the depths of the easy chair and hands him [Don Cox] a mint . . . a puffed mint, an after-dinner mint...
...could designers anticipate all the other hazards that computers might encounter in distant space-a burst of gamma radiation, the impact of a tiny meteor, an unexpected power loss. Even mission control would be powerless in such a crisis. If trouble occurred near Neptune, for example, radioed data describing the problem would take four hours to reach the earth. By that time, the moment for a crucial maneuver might well have passed, and the entire mission could be jeopardized...