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...escaping her awful destiny, another finding her troubled heritage. Buddhadeb Dasgupta's A Tale of a Naughty Girl is set in rural Bengal in 1969, the summer of the moon landing, but the feudal culture it defines could be today's?or that of hundreds of years ago. Lati, a pretty 14-year-old, hopes to slip out of an arranged marriage with an old goat, thinking it the worst of all possible worlds, while village women in the sex trade speak of their jobs with the weary humor of those resigned to desperation...
...Italy, Ponzi got on the good side of Mussolini's Fascists, was sent to Rio de Janeiro as business manager for Italy's LATI airlines. The war ended his job; after that he eked out a meager existence as a translator. Committed to a Rio charity ward, blind in one eye and partly paralyzed, he said not long ago: "I guess the only news about me that most people want to hear is my death." Last week, at 66, Get-Rich-Quick Ponzi made news for the last time...
...pioneered oceanic flying for the U.S., helped design the "Clippers" to do it (although Martin, Boeing and Sikorsky wailed that they never made money selling them to Trippe) and gave the U.S. domination in South America over Germany's Lufthansa, Air France and Italy's Lati. More important, Pan Am charted the transoceanic routes which became invaluable in war. As Trippe recalled: "Why, sometimes nobody in the State Department, or even the Navy, had ever heard of some of the places we wanted to get to, places now part of our aerial lifeline...
...possible competitors for the postwar air enumerated by Trippe: KLM (Dutch), BOAC (British), Soviet Air Trust, Air France, SILA (Swedish), Trans-Canada Air Lines, South African Airways, Lufthansa (German), LATI (Italian), Dai Nippon (Japan...
...State Department was negotiating with Brazil to ground Lati and Condor, its German-controlled colleague in the interior of Brazil. Until Brazil had substitutes, Lati and Condor were a necessary evil. So, pending a solution, the State Department had an agreement with Standard Oil: deliveries to the airlines continued, but only as approved by the U.S. Embassy...