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Without a note or chart or map, Kennedy stood with his back to a roaring fire and proceeded to analyze the U.S. political situation from top to bottom, from Kennebunkport to Ketchikan. His facts were encyclopedic: he knew the people, the problems-and had ideas about what he hoped...
...Where? The most ludicrous aspect of the licensing laws is the fact that they can turn a man into the most desperate kind of pub crawler: with a little ingenuity, a good map, and much patience he can drink legally around the clock in London...
...insufferable bore." In one dull period, he wangled his way onto the A.P.'s London bureau, where curious combination assignment, half sports and half Foreign Office reporting, lad opened up in 1937. Soon Reston, who says, "I didn't even know where Germany was on the map," was concentrating on the embassies. Reston shrewdly cultivated friendships with some of the young foreign officers, notably Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, then first secretary in the Canadian embassy, now leader of Canada's opposition Liberal Party, and France's Jean Monnet, both of whom rose along with Reston...
...that a proper adventure story translates the reader instantly from a world that is merely actual-represented by thinning hair and thickening wife-to one that is gloriously real. This putative planet, circumnavigated by Author Jenkins' sea thriller, is the realm of the dead mariner's cryptic map, the deathbed revelation cut off in mid-gargle, the implacable enemy, and the beautiful girl scientist who carries on the quest that killed her father. The story's hero has the sort of face that is weathered by wind, war, and lately by the floodlights of cigarette-ad photographers...
...excitement and urgency showed on a map, one of the most conspicuous places in the U.S. this week would be an edge of northern Utah, hitherto noted chiefly for peaches, sheep and sugar beets. This unlikely region, in Box Elder County north of Great Salt Lake, is boiling with frantic activity. Strange lights glare in the night, making the mountains shine, and a grumbling roar rolls across the desert. By day enormous clouds of steam-white smoke billow up in a few seconds and drift over hills and valleys. Monstrous vehicles with curious burdens lumber along the roads. All these...