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...SOLDIER'S ART, by Anthony Powell. The eighth novel in a brilliantly executed marathon series depicting what British life was like between and during the two big wars, carries Narrator-Hero Nick Jenkins into the second year of World...
Today's meet will be the last dual effort for Harvard's All-American breaststroker Bob Corris, captain Jim Seubold, sprinters Bob Padway and Andy Grinstead and marathon-man Dick Smith...
Enlightenment Simplified. Ministerial interest was greatly stimulated by Hefner's earnest, marathon attempt to spell out the "Playboy philosophy." It took 25 installments and a quarter of a million words. Hefner's thesis was that U.S. society had too long and too rigorously suppressed good, healthy heterosexuality. Since its growth had been stunted, Hefner argued, all sorts of perversions flourished in its place. "You get healthy sex not by ignoring it but by emphasizing it," he maintains. And the villain at the bottom of all this? Organized religion, announced Hefner with an unabashed air of discovery. Hefner revived puritanism long...
...than to journalism. Evelyn Waugh's Sword of Honor trilogy will serve for a start. For a finish, he can wrap up the whole era with Anthony Powell's incalculably brilliant series, The Music of Time. In The Soldier's Art, the eighth novel in this marathon enterprise,* Powell, now 61, brings his narrator hero, Nick Jenkins, into his second year of World War II. Jenkins carries on with his task of scoring for conversation the operatic ballet that keeps Powell's 50-odd characters dancing eccentrically until war imposes its own choreography...
...ranked virtually nowhere among the oil-producing nations of the world. Today it stands seventh, behind the U.S., U.S.S.R., Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iran. Thirty-nine companies have drilling operations in the Libyan desert. The biggest producer is a consortium, Oasis Oil Co. of Libya, Inc., comprising Continental, Marathon and Amerada-Shell. Also on the scene are Esso, Mobil/ Gelsenberg (75% Mobil-owned) and Amoseas, a joint exploration venture of Texaco and Standard of California. Together, these giants pump more than 1.7 million...