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...News evidently picked a fight it could not win. Australian Press Lord Rupert Murdoch, owner of the sensation-mongering New York Post (circ. 732,000), counterattacked with a new morning edition. Across town, the New York Times (circ. 931,000) was not impressed; it grew in circulation (up 16,000 since last year) and advertising linage (up from 57% to 60% of the three-paper total). "We're fat and sassy," says Times Executive Editor A.M. Rosenthal. "If this is a war, we're not in the trenches...
...former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, 64. But when the vote was announced last week-gasp -Kissinger was dead last. Said one council member: "It just stood out on the ballot-a chance to vote against Kissinger. It was too good to pass up." Council President Winston Lord, 43, a former Kissinger protégé, had a different view. Said he: "It's really a fluke...
...LORD GOD MADE THEM...
...outside his own turf, James Alfred Wight passes unnoticed among the readers who have made him famous. Only under his pseudonym is he recognized as the Marcus Welby of the barnyard and the author of four bestsellers about an amiable animal doctor named James Herriot. The fourth, The Lord God Made Them All, revisits the peaceable kingdom of rural England, celebrates simple pleasures and, as before, pours time back and forth like sand in a kitchen hourglass...
...nawbut a stone in t'kidney) and technical jargon ("You can get hypertrophy of the rumenal walls and inhibition of cellulose-digesting bacteria with a low pH"). Each volume has become increasingly formulaic. But it is Herriot's original formula, an unfailing blend of exotica-for The Lord God Made Them All, a recollection of trips to Russia and Turkey-and accounts of extraordinary happenings to ordinary people and creatures. Volume IV of the tetralogy offers a series of bright anecdotes about two brothers who let themselves get talked into buying insurance and then manage to have...