Word: fellows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same Fairbank fellow needed only one word to sum up her feelings on Jiang's speech: "fluff...
...politically astute," the fellow said. "I don't think he really wanted to hear American reaction. It was pure acting. He knew that would be the issue--whether he would take questions...
...cargo-vessel accident that focused the world's attention on Mir--and on Foale. While Tsibliyev and his fellow Russian Alexander Lazutkin returned to Earth last August--having been relieved by two fresh cosmonauts--Foale did not get his ride home until a few weeks ago, when the shuttle Atlantis ferried up astronaut David Wolf to relieve...
...been to Germany twice, but a NASA-sponsored U.S. trip was postponed. "We've had a few things to sort out," he explains. Wife Larissa, meanwhile, has become a minor celebrity. Russian Mir watchers praise her dignity and "big-screen beauty." "She's kept strong," says a fellow cosmonaut's wife, "and kept the kids out of the public eye." Tsibliyev, a colonel, could still lose his stripes. But son Vasili Jr., 19, and daughter Victoria, 14, are not worried. "Papa's back," says Victoria. "That's all that matters...
Still, most readers of airport paperbacks, the kind of good, sturdy trash that will see you through four hours at O'Hare, would say of Westlake, "Sure, clever fellow, writes detective stories." He doesn't, however. In the long list of his 60-some novels, the author recalls no detectives, no "police procedurals," as cop stories are called in the trade, no lawyer novels. Why? Mildly, but definitely, Westlake gives a surprising answer: "Authority is doing fine. They don't need my help." Spy novels, then? "No, they were never right for me. Those guys are working...