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...winning works to choose from. There are no fewer than 275 prizes for poetry-or roughly one prize for every French poet, according to a cynical Paris critic. There are prizes for the best novels about soccer, vacations, volcanoes and happy old age. The Grand Prix Litteraire des Vins du Périgord de la Région de Bergerac goes to the best literary celebration of the glories of Perigord wine. First prize: half a barrel of Périgord wine. The Prix Mystère et Cognac, which was unfortunately abolished this year, traditionally went to the best...
...nonsupport. Of the 21 attending a meeting of the committee, only two said they were for Heath. However, Heath's own preferred successor, former Northern Ireland Proconsul William Whitelaw, is disparaged by much of the party as an amiable lightweight. At the same time, former Party Chairman Edward du Cann, a successful financier and a leader of the party's right wing, is suspected by many as a schemer...
...Catholics in Northern Ireland. Heath's delay in announcing his intention, however, allowed opposition to build and a whole pack of new contenders to emerge, including Sir Keith Joseph, shadow Home Secretary; Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, the shadow cabinet's spokeswoman on housing and environment; and Edward du Cann, a former party chairman. With the prospect of an internal power struggle erupting, Heath changed his mind and decided to remain the Tory leader-at least for the moment...
Scientists long suspected that polymers-macromolecules made up of chains of smaller molecules-might be custom-tailored to create an almost infinite variety of materials. Flory, who began his work 40 years ago as a member of the Du Pont research team that developed nylon, showed the way. He devised methods of analyzing and studying polymers that made it possible to develop new plastics and other synthetics on a systematic basis. He also found that there is a specific temperature (now known as the Flory temperature) at which each polymer exists in an ideal state for study of its properties...
...details amassed are awesome. The reader will learn that streetcars in Arnhem were pale yellow; that Lieut. General Frederick Browning, deputy commander of the First Allied Airborne Army (and husband of Novelist Daphne du Maurier), wore spotless gray kid gloves and sat on an empty beer crate as his glider took him into battle. Nor does Ryan fail to mention the name of the beer (Worthington)-just as he identifies the typewriter (Olivetti) being tapped by a then U.P. correspondent named Walter Cronkite. Random, trivial, even compulsive, Ryan's facts eventually justify themselves as a fragmented tableau of that...