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...CURRENTLY three-quarters of the way through Robert A. Heinlein's newest novel, I Will Fear No Evil, which is being serialized in Galaxy, and I feel somewhat as if I had sat at the feet of the blind Homer and heard him lean over to me and say, "Did you ever hear the one about the travelling salesman and the farmer's daughter...
...buff. Bob Kaufman, who wrote the screenplays for Getting Straight and / Love My Wife, is currently getting a kick out of teasing his friend about working with Bergman. "When he's on the set, Gould thinks every director is Fellini. When the picture is finished, he's already David Lean. But by the time it's released, he's Mervyn Le Roy. Let's face it," he says in joking anticipation. "One day Elliott's going to say that Bergman's a jerk...
...crowded briefing room in Tel Aviv, a lean Israeli colonel last week presented to the world what Israel considers proof of a major Egyptian cease-fire violation. The colonel's evidence came in the form of a series of large, fuzzy aerial photographs. To the untrained eye, the photos looked like little more than a jumble of black scratches and splotches on the desert sand. But to the Israeli military command, the pictures demonstrated that the Soviets and Egyptians had violated the truce as soon as it began at 1 a.m. on Aug. 8 by continuing to move...
...Tall and lean (5 ft. 11 in., 165 Ibs.), Eddy estimates that he pedals some 21,000 miles during the nine-month season. He starts training each year with a modest 30-to 40-mile daily practice, soon works up to 90 to 125 miles a day. A perfectionist, he "cures" his tires by storing them for three years in a cool, dry cellar. His bikes are like nothing ever seen in the local sports shop: an 181-lb. model with ten speeds for the sprints, a more rugged 22-lb. version with twelve speeds for the mountains...
...celluloid scribes of Something for Everyone inform us. Looming up in the mists was her former abode, a massive castle that would have excited the imagination of a Winston cigarette ad campaigner. The countess's present quarters were on the castle grounds in a palatial lean-to that the countess shared with her gay son and a daughter who had once been voted the Ugliest Duckling beyond the Valley of the Rhine...