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Miller has been bothered by his reviewers, who have either taken the book too seriously, he feels, or not seriously enough. "Some guy from the Detroit Free Press spent the whole time damning the jacket design, and yelling at me for having my age on the flyleaf. The only quote...
The latest anti-Hoffa effort came last week in the Philadelphia area, where a group of rank-and-file rebels sought to win a National Labor Relations Board election, take 8,000 members of Local 107 and three other locals out of the Teamsters and into the A.F.L.-C.I.O. The...
Falsely, Claggart accuses the sailor of plotting mutiny. Vere knows that Claggart is lying and, seeing a chance to trap him, he sends for Billy Budd to deny the charge. Billy, facing Claggart in Vere's cabin, struggles to speak, but can only make the terrible sounds of stammering...
Compulsive Gamble. Like Lipton and Sopwith, Australia's Sir Frank Packer is a tough, determined competitor. Asked why he had challenged for the cup, Packer replied: "Alcohol and delusions of grandeur." Lusty and lantern-jawed, a onetime prizefighter and lifelong yachtsman, Packer is known at home as a ruthless...
Testimony to Terror. Balaguer himself can testify to the terror-and its reward after 31 years of service to Trujillo. A bright lad from a middle-class family, he graduated from law school at 22 and quickly understood where the future lay under an iron-fisted dictator. Finding a job...