Word: fatefulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Pueblo's fate is dimming in public memory and Viet Nam troop levels have been stabilized, many reservists feel there is no longer an overriding need for them to stay. "We don't have any idea when it will end," complains Airman First Class Eugene Potter, 21, who left his salesman's job to shuffle papers as a clerk with the 445th Wing. "If we had some kind of idea what we will be doing, we could make plans...
...fate," French Premier Georges Pompidou once said, "is to be President of the Republic -or leader of the opposition." If last week's election results could not quite guarantee Pompidou his first choice, they certainly lessened his chances of ever having to settle for the second. The Gaullist sweep among France's voters-and the turn of events that led to it-have clearly made Pompidou the President's indispensable second-in-command and undisputed heir apparent. "My signature," De Gaulle calls him, and now that seems to carry the imprimatur of succession...
...PLAYHOUSE (shown on Fridays). "Thirteen Against Fate: The Widower," another in this package of 13 BBC-produced plays based on Georges Simenon mysteries, dwells on a wife's suicide and a husband's selfdelusion...
...Alone in his apartment, he spends all his nights and weekends playing an intricate baseball game of his own invention. Eight imaginary teams of the Universal Baseball Association battle for the pennant; individual players spring to life as three dice and a collection of elaborately detailed charts decide their fate. They reach glory, enjoy fame, grow old, lose their skills, retire to sell insurance and finally die as the dice decree. Waugh records the statistics. He is God's scorekeeper, or perhaps God himself-the name J. Henry Waugh can be read as a play on the sacred Hebrew...
Publishers, cowering behind their accountants' ledgers, aim primarily to pick off winners, not pick up literature. But every once in a while, through the magic of ricochet and carom, they manage to do both with a single resounding shot. Such is the fate of this book. True Grit is a lean but plucky novel that has been sold to the movies for $300,000, serialized in the Saturday Evening Post and chosen as a Literary Guild selection. It is also gilded with literary quality that can delight book lovers as well as bookkeepers...