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...able to get down 2,000 words a day," he laments. "Now I'm happy if I can do 1,000." If he is still in the thinking stage, however, he sits in an armchair, his pipe rack beside him, and a dog or cat on his lap. Before arriving at his usual labyrinthine mystery-style plot-he is "awfully keen" on Agatha Christie and Rex Stout-he jots down something like 400 pages of notes. "I do like a book with an elaborate plot," he says. Old age? Piffle! "As long as I'm in a chair...
...realignment of the entire Pacific power structure, something very much like a total transformation appears to be under way even now. One thing that is certainly being mulled is new alliances. Says Sato, mixing his images: "If there is trouble inside the U.S., the waves caused by these troubles lap the Japanese shores. We must realize that we are in the same boat." Sato's successor is unlikely to abandon the boat, but he may look with new interest on Japan's biggest neighbors, the Soviet Union and China, as potential lifesavers. It is improbable, however, that...
Davis concluded, however, that the final decision was up to the individual registrar, and dumped the whole thing back into the lap of the Election Commission...
...other major exception to the rules fell in the lap of the U.S. steel industry. On orders from the White House, foreign steel became the only major industrial product that will be subject to both an import quota and an import tax surcharge. Sellers of nearly all other foreign products whose importation is formally restricted, notably oil, will not have to pay the 10% surcharge. When asked to explain the ruling, which amounts to double protection for domestic steel, COLC Executive Director Arnold Weber pointed out that the original White House explanation of the import surcharge did not contain...
...soldiers opened fire, killing two and wounding another. According to one report from the Press Trust of India (P.T.I.), 50 refugees recently fled into a jute field near the Indian border when they heard a Pakistani army patrol approaching. "Suddenly a six-month-old child in its mother's lap started crying," said the P.T.I, report. "Failing to make the child silent and apprehending that the refugees might be attacked, the woman throttled the infant to death...