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...fighter-bombers of the U.S. Air Force, backed up by the Navy's far-ranging carrier planes and submarines. Operating out of 270-odd air bases in a score of countries, this thermonuclear strike force is poised all day, every day, to deliver a 360° assault (see map) against the 37,500-mile borders of the Soviet Union, each single aircraft capable of unloading on target the mighty equivalent of all the bombs dropped by all nations during World War II. Unlike the Kremlin's-headline-making experimental missiles, the U.S. thermonuclear strike force is lethal...
...MAP (193 pp.)-Angus Wilson-Viking...
...given the dreadful dossiers of about 40 odd types, ranging from pathological spivs to a loony peer. The intellectuals shuffle inside their ideas like men in borrowed dirty clothes. Most of the characters have ambiguous attitudes toward sex, money and class. The title story, A Bit Off the Map, is the personal narrative of Kennie, one of the loose-jawed, tight-jeaned set known in London as Teddy boys, who falls in with a crew of intellectuals. They are dismal London versions of Greenwich Village nihilists-a sort of intellectual Jimson weed that sprouted amid the unfilled bomb craters...
Trail Blazer. In Swanton, Ohio, Chicago Motorist Patrick Powers, 70, was finally flagged down on the Ohio turnpike after a long chase in which he swerved along at 90 m.p.h., explained to the arresting cop: "I was reading my road map. I wanted to see where I was going...
Kerouac has taken the slightly less than original idea that life is like a road and given it an indisputably original twist by using a U. S. road map for most of the plot, and a Mexican map for the rest of it. Everything happens while the characters are physically on the move and nothing every happens when they stop. Outside of pure motion, there is no development of anything. Whenever some danger of a little drama through which personal relationships or just plain personalities might be explored develops, Kerouac drops the situation...