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...rebel Algerian F.L.N. last week abruptly turned left. After three years under the relatively benign leadership of Premier Ferhat Abbas, 61, an ex-druggist who speaks better French than Arabic and has a middle-class habit of falling asleep after a good dinner, control shifted to a clutch of hard-eyed terrorists who had survived street battles and mountain skir mishes in the seven-year war against the French...
...they lost to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Since then Mauch's team, a combination of players too young to be good and too old for ambition, has won only 34 games, a meager victory assortment widely diffused by 88 defeats. In a fruitless effort to break the losing habit, Manager Mauch has shifted his players into unfamiliar positions, paraded pitchers to the mound, used as many as 17 players a game, and even tried applied psychology. "Do what you want to," he ordered his men one night after a humiliating defeat. "There's no curfew tonight...
Kratka, 35. uses either foreign orchestras or musicians recruited from such groups as NBC's Symphony of the Air. Musicians themselves are among the best customers. One violinist owns all the vio lin albums, has a habit of putting them on the record player after midnight, when he gets the urge to play but is unable to round up an orchestra. Kratka also sells briskly to schools, libraries, mental hospitals (where Dixieland is used for patient therapy) and to diplomats in remote areas. His most baffling customer: the man who wrote to request Bach's Sonatas for Unaccompanied...
Dillon dinners were worth a star, perhaps two, in the Guide Michelin. Dillon was what bureaucrats call a "quick briefer." He read every cable that left the embassy, demanded hyperaccurate reporting from subordinates. He had a habit (as he still does) of catching up aides on small-but often significant-errors. Eventually, even the Foreign Service pros gave him their respect...
Hand-Made Quality. Graves, like most writers, would profit if prevented by law from talking about his work. He has said, truthfully but with ill-seeming defensiveness: "The obstinate habit I have formed of refusing to adopt a synthetic period style, or join any literary racket, has given my poems what would be called a 'handmade, individual craftsmanship quality.' " This is the sneer of a writer who feels that he has received less than his due, and the same poorly disguised pain is visible in his dedication of Collected Poems, To Calliope...