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From a pine-covered knoll near Hof (pop. 60,000) in central Germany, five G.I.s of Bravo Company. 2nd U.S. Armored Cavalry, last week stood watchful guard on a section of the Iron Curtain. Staff Sergeant William S. Nolen Jr.. 21. of Mt. Holly. N.C.. in charge of this pinpoint on 500 miles of West German frontier, had his .30-cal. machine guns dug in. his field telephone ready at hand. Beyond the barbed wire and strip of plowed land that marked the border lay the peaceful green hills of East Germany's Thuringia-and as close...
...knoll overlooking the twisting road from the Lebanese mountain village of Beit Méri to Beirut, two men waited-as they had waited for two days-to kill Lebanese Premier Sami Solh. The sirens of Sami Solh's motorcade escorting him back to town from his mountain villa sounded down the canyon, and one of the men set his hand on the plunger of a battery box whose wires led down into the trunk of a disabled Ford parked beside the narrow road...
...swarm of landscape gardeners and foresters came in, built an artificial lake to highlight the building. To adorn the setting Sculptor Noguchi chiseled a brooding group of druidical forms, which President Wilde likes but frankly calls "a puzzlement." For the interiors, pert, petite Florence Knoll of Knoll Associates furnished new chairs and desks designed to help tradition-bound insurance executives relax in 12-ft.-by-12-ft. offices surrounded by chrome and bold, cheery fabrics...
...return, or men in grey flannel suits may make unconvincing passes at fellow members' wives, but no one ever did a full-dress, inside-the-country-club story-until that Boswell of the American upper middle class, John P. Marquand, took on the task. Life at Happy Knoll (a series of sketches that first appeared in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED) is deftly ironic social comedy, as slight as the shorts of Happy Knoll's women members and as smooth as the club's putting greens...
...saga of Happy Knoll is told in a series of letters, most of them from Roger Horlick, harassed member of the board of governors, to Albert Magill, the club's president emeritus, well-heeled elder statesman and occasional philosopher-he has been known to compare Happy Knoll to the Baths of Caracalla. For all its outward bonhomie, the Horlick-Magill correspondence chronicles a perpetual crisis -settling foundations, unsettled bar bills, membership raids from the wily rival club, Hard Hollow, and fights between locker room cliques (the change-shoes-and-leave set v. the shower-and-have-a-few-drinks...