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Allen Drury's A God Against the Gods, the latest offering from the nation's most annoyingly prolific political writer, does not change this gloomy picture. Drury, who struck gold in 1960 with Advise and Consent, a superbly-written Pulitzer Prizewinner about the scandals surrounding a would-be Secretary of State, has never been one to tinker with a good thing. Shrewdly noting that his first book spent two highly profitable years on the New York Times Best Seller List, he spent the next 15 years churning out a seemingly endless series of high-priced sequels, which lacking better titles...
...apolitical drifter, Ray ("Cat") Olsen, 23, held ten hostages in a Manhattan branch of New York's Bankers Trust Co. for eight hours, demanded that authorities release Patty Hearst and imprisoned members of the Symbionese Liberation Army and pay him $10 million in gold. Result: Olsen gave up and freed all hostages...
...offered it to him-and he reluctantly accepted. (This, observes Witke, was a personal victory for her.) A little later, he removed a thermos flask of liquor from his belt and silently passed it to her. At one point during her recollections, Chiang Ch'ing reached for a gold-brocaded box and drew from it a delicately carved sandalwood fan. On it, in a sample of Mao's own renowned calligraphy, was one of his poems titled "Winter Clouds...
There are no bay trees, green or otherwise, in Alaska, however, and last spring's Pulitzer gold-medal winner for public service, Anchorage's Daily News (TIME, May 17), is having a long dark winter. To reduce expenses, the paper has had to trim its editorial staff from 21 to twelve. Two of the three reporters whose Pulitzer-winning articles revealed the stranglehold that the Teamsters have gained on Alaskan labor have left for better jobs, and the morning Daily News' circulation of 11,600 has shrunk to 7,580. But Publisher Katherine Fanning, 49, who with...
Last Book. "Our purpose is the revival and restoration of pure Islam," the pudgy, bearded Wallace declared to the throng at Chicago's gold-domed central mosque on Survival Day weekend. No longer is Fard to be considered divine, according to Wallace, for "God does not eat, he does not drink." Nor is Elijah Muhammad to be considered the "Messenger of God." Wallace's view: "The Prophet Mohammed is the seal of the prophets, and the Koran is the last book." The soft-spoken Wallace Muhammad, who had originally wanted to be an electronics technician, privately questioned Fard...