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...concerned, like the U.S., over what is now called "escalation," or the proliferation of nuclear capability among other nations. One of the secrets confided to West Germany's Konrad Adenauer in Washington was the gist of a recent private message to Eisenhower from Khrushchev. There was even a hint in Washington that Khrushchev, too, like everybody else, would not like to hasten Red China's nuclear aptitude...
...Martin's Revlon shares for the equivalent value in the stock of Schering Corp., a New Jersey drug firm which Revlon had bought with the idea of a merger, later dropped. But Charlie's legal counsel had advised him, he said, that a straight-value switch might hint of favoritism, open Revlon to stockholder protests of waste and mismanagement. Would Martin accept the equivalent value in Schering stock at $3 a share less than the market value of his Revlon stock...
...novel's start, he is nervous because he has just turned apostate to that religion by marrying a teen-age French girl. Poor Cecil seems not to realize that his wife is socially handicapped by a hint of Arab ancestry and an arty kid brother. The plot turns on Cecil's attempts to introduce his bride into the pukka colony (her first appearance on the tennis courts is a satiric fiasco) and his maneuvering for a promotion. There is taut melodrama involving the escape of a couple of interned Palestinian terrorists, who call Cecil "Spurgeon the Virgin" (possibly...
...evasive an expression as "tolerance of the 'incompetent.'" It has no intelligible meaning. If you compare it to the precision with which I express my ideas, you will easily see that it does not belong to my style of speaking or thinking. If you were hinting that what I oppose is the sacrifice of the competent to the incompetent-you don't have to hint; this is what I hereby request that you put me on the record as saying: I oppose the sacrifice of the competent to the incompetent and of any man to any other...
More Than a Pulitzer. Mad scientists, Critic Amis notes, are no longer well regarded. In fact, scientists are often credited with possessing most of mankind's available sanity. (Many S.F. authors and readers have had technical training, and the literature contains more than a hint of mutual admiration.) Except when plots involve genetics, sex is treated with spinsterly distaste; the earthier urges, concludes Amis, are best ignored...