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RING OF BRIGHT WATER (211 pp.)-Gavin Maxwell-Duffon...
Pets? Poet Gavin Maxwell, grandson of famed Natural Historian Sir Herbert Maxwell, has investigated them all: a lemur, a bush baby, a wildcat, a rail, five wild geese, a dozen tropical birds, a goat that jumped on the kitchen table, and a cow that strolled upstairs one day and almost gave birth on the landing. Otters, he proclaims in this lyric celebration of the beast he loved the best and of the wild Scottish coast they romped along together, are the greatest...
Lieut. General James Maurice Gavin, 53, now president of Arthur D. Little, Inc., largest private research and management consultant firm in the U.S., will get the touchy and prestigious post in Paris. Onetime boss of the Army's Research and Development section, ex-Paratrooper Gavin petulantly resigned from the Army in 1958 after losing a battle to push his service farther into the space and missile business. Hustling into print with his book, War and Peace in the Space Age, Gavin impressed the then Senator Kennedy (who reviewed the book for the Reporter magazine) with his argument that future...
...running for the prestigious post in Paris are Under Secretary of State Livingston Merchant and two retired Army generals who blasted the Eisenhower Administration defense policies: onetime Chief of Staff Maxwell Taylor and onetime Research and Development Chief James Gavin. Merchant will definitely pluck some plum, if not the Paris embassy then another major one. Among several contenders for the ambassadorship to Japan are John D. Rockefeller III, Harvard's Edwin O. Reischauer and Jeffrey Parsons, who is likely to be replaced as Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs by U. Alexis Johnson, at present Ambassador...
Crassus, actually only a competitor for the consulship while Spartacus was on the loose, is presented as the Dictator of Rome. To compound the cinematic crime, Caesar, the empire builder, is portrayed by Actor Gavin, a rose-lipped, sloe-eyed young man who looks as though he never got to the first conjugation, let alone the Gallic Wars. And Antoninus, a Roman poet, is played by Actor Curtis with an accent which suggests that the ancient Tiber was a tributary of the Bronx River. To these blunders is added the customary quota of glaring goofs (a map of Italy that...