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...visit Moscow since 1956, Tanaka was primarily interested in discussing the return to Japanese control of four islands north of Hokkaido that were seized by the Soviets at the tail end of the war. Though small geographically (4,244 sq. mi.), the islands-Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotani and Habomai*-loom large politically. The Diet has been pressing Tanaka to assert Japan's rights to the islands. If Tanaka could arrange their return under a belated peace treaty with Russia formally ending World War II, it would be a major and much-needed personal triumph...
...quite come out from behind the prose screens). More than any of his 17 previous novels, the story takes off from the workaday world in search of the ineffable. The familiar trappings of Wright's baroque realism turn up: the taste of switch grass and cord grass, the loom of grain elevators, the feel of a kitten dropped by wanton boys into a country-school privy. But the subject is myth. Old, unbelieving, literal-minded Floyd Warner takes on immortal longings. Having defied common sense by taking a herd of sheep and a wife to the banks...
Some problems loom at home too. Continued growth of the fast-food industry seems almost assured for several reasons: Americans are spending more time in their cars, and 44% of the nation's women hold paid jobs, giving them more money to eat out and less time to cook at home. But the industry has long been overcrowded; Minnie Pearl's Chicken Systems, Joe Namath's Broadway Joe's and a number of other chains all fell on hard times as competitors proliferated. McDonald's will have to scramble harder and harder to stay ahead...
...general, if you need a T-shirt, one can be bought at smaller expense (if you like BVD or Fruit of the Loom) at nearby Woolworths...
...over financing graduate education. The Union will probably be here. The remaining share of federal funds may even be here. Administrators are eternally here. And the problems of priorities and power which necessitated the Kraus plan and then turned it into a powder keg will undoubtedly be here to loom over the entire community as soon as the Kraus plan comes up for revision...