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...Zhivago in Russian. It was, she is sure, no coincidence, but an act of fate. Soon immersed in the book, which is banned in Russia, she found that it affected her like "a squall of rain and snow, like an avalanche, like a hurricane." Suffused with Pasternak's lan guage and imagery, she sat down and wrote an extraordinary 3,200-word document that she hoped would find its way back to her children and friends in Russia. Last week it appeared in the Atlantic magazine, which, pleased with its journalistic coup, proclaimed in an ad: "The great tradition...
...thing to give an account of a discussion between public figures concerning a public matter which was, as I have said, 'not without friction'; it is quite another to ascribe fictitious profanity or threats to the participants. I did not -nor would I-use the kind of lan guage you attributed to me in speaking to the President of the United States." Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach, who witnessed the meeting, also described our account as "seriously inaccurate...
...years ago for a $50,000-a-year income as a private consultant and professor at the University of Minnesota, is an admirable account of the political machinations that underlay the recent age of discovery in economics-and welcome not least because he writes with crispness, clarity and élan...
Stolen Eggs. The dragon, who lives in the Mekong River in front of the Lan Xang Hotel in Vientiane, is a powerful force to the spirit-worshiping Laotians. He is also angry. His daughter laid three eggs this summer; they were stolen, and the dragon wants them back...
...Representative Robert Griffin of Michigan, 42, co-author of the Lan-drum-Griffin Labor Act and one of the most active young Republicans in the House, became a candidate for the Sen ate seat of ailing Democrat Pat Mc-Namara, 71, who is expected to retire...