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There are amateurs and pros among writers too. One of the most influential pros is Ed McBain. He did not invent the police "procedural," but his 87th Precinct books have attracted several imitators, especially in Europe. The most famous is the Martin Beck series by the Swedish couple Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, who made their Stockholm cops into moody eccentrics and stopped their plots for digressions into psychology and politics...
Alexander Zinoviev, a satirist of Soviet life, emigrated to Munich last month. The Supreme Soviet's action against him was the same as that taken this year against emigrees Maj. Gen. Pyotr Grigorenko and Mstislav Rostropovitch...
However, the Secret Service will guard Khama during his stay here, Maj. Thomas C. Smith, a special agent in charge of the Secret Service in Boston said yesterday...
...MAJ SJÖWALL and PER WAHL...
...strong-arm tactics, most notably a stiffly worded warning that Labor Cabinet members and junior ministers could lose their jobs by not supporting the bill, 89 Laborites voted against it; 50 others avoided the confrontation by finding pressing business elsewhere. The Tories, however, predictably rallied to Her Maj esty's defense, and the measure passed by a 337- vote margin...