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MARK LOOKED over at me from the driver's seat. A sly, sardonic grin spread slowly across his face. With all the sarcasm he could muster, he started singing right along with John Lennon: "Paperback writer, paperback writer, I want to be a paperback writer...
...McNeely is pleased that after a career as a truck driver and a guitar player he has hit on a role that carries some celebrity. Roy remembers Hugh O'Brian playing Wyatt Earp on television, and Burt Lancaster as Wyatt Earp in the movie. Earp was a deputy marshal in Tombstone, the dust-blown Arizona town best known for a gunfight that gave him his fame, the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. Today McNeely is Tombstone's marshal. Tourists often ask him for his autograph, and he is flattered...
Sergeant Joe Pena knows the way, and because of that he has been released from Leavenworth, where he was imprisoned for sleeping with an officer's wife. His assignment is to be Oppenheimer's driver and liaison with the native American population. As a well-traveled boxer and musician, Pena straddles two cultures. Oppenheimer calls him a "bebop Indian," though this is not an adequate description. But then, Los Alamos is a breeding ground of misapprehensions. Captain Augustino, the project security officer, is convinced that "Oppy" is passing information to the Soviets, while Klaus Fuchs, a real spy, fails...
...appropriate personnel under their own civil service system, the state is employing convicted criminals at slave-labor prices." But state officials say the use of inmates to answer phones frees employees to serve the thousands of people who line up in the agency's offices each day to get driver's licenses and car registrations. Says DMV Commissioner Patricia Adduci: "The challenge in government today is to provide quality service at a minimal cost." The agency intends to hire some of the inmates at standard wages after they leave prison...
Authorities accorded the mother and daughter privileges reserved for the elite. They were given a large apartment, a car and a driver. In Gori, the museum honoring her father opened a section devoted to Svetlana, featuring letters and presents they exchanged in her youth. When she arrived in Moscow three weeks ago to arrange her departure, she and Olga moved into the Sovietskaya, a hotel where foreign dignitaries normally stay...