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...Brien's anarchic foray against the foolishness of fact begins with a university student who is trying to write a realistic novel between courses at the National University. It is a glum, pompously polysyllabic work which gets out of hand because the main character is Dermot Trellis, described as "an eccentric author," a publican who has "conceived the project of writing a salutary book on the consequences that follow wrongdoing." Trellis' characters, in turn, include Fergus MacPhellimey, a "pooka," which is some sort of leprechaun, and John Furriskey, whose task it is to attack women and behave...
...jungled War Zone "D" near Saigon, U.S. troops and their allies killed more than 1,900 of the enemy. At week's end a battalion of U.S. Marines splashed ashore near the mouth of the Long Tao River, the main shipping channel to Saigon, to yet another foray, this one dubbed "Jack Stay...
DECEMBER'S CHILDREN (London), which includes the hit single Get Off of My Cloud, is another Rolling Stones foray into rhythm and blues. There are signs no bigger than an LP's band that the Stones are softening. As Tears Go By is a weeper that Bobby Vinton might sing, though not so well as Mick Jagger, who is actually accompanied by violins...
...weeks ago, Hagel made another foray into what he describes as the field of "lifetime continuing education." For about $5,000,000, Crowell Collier bought the famed Berlitz Schools of Languages, and Berlitz Publications, Inc. Berlitz, which offers courses in 46 languages, is the innovator of a "total immersion" teaching technique that drowns a student with 13 hours a day of lessons, even at mealtimes. American firms are sending more and more of their men to Berlitz before sending them overseas, and now provide 40% of the firm's business, which last year amounted to a tidy...
Action was even in the second period after McCullough surprised Cohen from the faceoff circle in the first minute of play. Harvard killed three penalties with no mess or bother and cleanly intercepted every Eagle foray...