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...calm and nearly as prosperous as ever. Salisbury's streets are clogged with cars-whose tanks are filled with gasoline sneaked across the border from South Africa and Mozambique. Factories are still running at nearly full speed, and white unemployment is virtually nonexistent. The country can import whatever it likes from South Africa. There is a desperate shortage of golf balls, and Rhodesian whites are having to make do with locally produced candy, clothing and false teeth, but nothing essential is missing from the shelves...
...reason. In this prodigious, labyrinthine fiction, the reader is constantly baffled and bamboozled by trap doors and intellectual booby traps. Reading Giles Goat-Boy, and debating its meaning, will surely be one of the most bracing literary exercises of 1966 and beyond. It is a satire of major import...
...funereal Peace Palace donated by Andrew Carnegie shortly before World War I, the World Court in The Hague has been a graveyard of political illusions. Lacking an effective executive to enforce its decisions, hamstrung by conflicting bilateral treaties, and limited to advisory opinions on issues of worldwide import, the Court of International Justice is like a traffic cop without a whistle...
...Even before publication it provoked a flurry of attention from gun manufacturers, sportsmen's clubs, self-styled patriotic organizations, and the 700,000-member National Rifle Association, all of which are opposing a bill, now in a Senate subcommittee, that would put stiffer federal limits on the import and sale of firearms. Bakal's work seems certain to become one of the most widely debated books of the year. The publisher, hoping that it will stir as much commotion as Silent Spring, Rachel Carson's polemic against insecticides, likes to call it Silent Springfield...
...Isabel rejoined el líder in his Spanish exile. She was met with a lengthy embrace from unwan Juan, looking less than his 70 years, and the couple went off for "a second honeymoon." Their transportation: a black Mercedes that is registered in the U.S. to avoid Spanish import duties. Old dictators know all the tricks...