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...strong individualistic note of its own and suggests that U.S. readers may have been missing something. Beautifully translated by Edouard Roditi, the book tells the story of young Memed who grows up in a mud-walled village hut in a remote province of Anatolia. Recklessly brave and a deadly marksman, Memed battles his environment and a succession of superb villains. Chief among them: sly, goat-bearded Abdi Agha, who owns five villages and combines the brutality of Simon Legree with the buffoonery of Captain Hook. Readers will have to remind themselves from time to time that all this is happening...
...boar shashlik, shredded venison curry. Then they went after bigger game: a female rhinoceros, spotted plodding through the jungle, calf in tow. Prized by poachers (who grind the horns into a powder that is valued as an alleged aphrodisiac), the one-horned rhino has almost disappeared from Nepal. But Marksman Home was not to be denied. With the help again of Bonham Carter and Adeane, he quickly dispatched the lumbering beast, left its calf to fend for itself in the jungle...
...Anderson is the spray gun's hottest marksman, has used it to give vaccinations against typhoid in Brazil, cholera in Pakistan and Thailand, yellow fever in the Sudan, influenza at U.S. Navy stations. Now medical officer of the Quonset Point Naval Air Station. Dr. Anderson responded to Rhode Island health officers' appeals for help in mass immunization by working at makeshift clinics on his own time. He had so many takers that he has had to squeeze in his Air Station work in the mornings, now gives afternoons and evenings to the civilian clinics, which are scheduled...
...give any group of managers all the leverage they need to wheel and deal. But last week Alleghany's wheeler-dealers were laid low by a small stockholder who did not like the way they were running things. He is Randolph Phillips, 48, a tough, Harvard-educated financial marksman who has been sniping away at Alleghany's top brass for five years and finally scored a bull's-eye with a thumping victory in court...
Teaming with the 6 ft. Donohue at guard will be Bob Bowditch, a forward last winter. Wilson calls Bowditch "the best shooter on the squad," and the 6 ft., 1 in. marksman possesses a deadly jump shot which helped him hit for an average of 10 points per contest as a sophomore last year...