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...FIREDRAKE by Cecelia Holland. 243 pages. Afheneum...
...usual historical novel is notoriously long on panoply and pomp. In this spare but sturdy tale, young (22) First-Novelist Cecelia Holland cuts away the familiar embroideries and tells the story of a wandering warrior-knight who rights for pay in the feudal feuds of llth century Europe, winds up under William the Conqueror in the thick of the slaughter at Hastings. Author Holland, who writes history as if her hero were watching it happen, en-capsules the medieval military mind: brash as plunder, elemental as blood...
Across Belgium last week, doctors quietly packed their black satchels, gassed up their autos and made sure that their passports were in order. They were preparing to flee into neighboring Holland or France and thus plunge Belgium into its second doctors' strike in less than two years, unless the government of Premier Pierre Harmel agreed to require patients to pay fees for doctors' services in the country's six Socialist-run clinics...
...limited markets, U.S. companies already have borrowed about as much as they can. Moreover, loans from European bankers are often tied to development within the country where money is borrowed. Bond money can be spent anywhere; Honeywell has earmarked its $20 million for operations in Britain, Germany, France and Holland. The best part of all is that bonds are tax-free if issued through specially chartered holding companies. Such companies are not hard to set up. The state of Delaware will charter any holding company that derives 80% of its income from abroad. As for little Luxembourg, it makes chartering...
...tightest races should come in the backstroke, where Harvard's Al Lincoln and Jon Holland will meet Dartmouth's Hank Art and Mark Buttin...