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It is in the book's final pages, in her decision of the coup and the dislocation which followed it, that Allende steps out of the shadow of Marques and other South American novelists. As she describes the unification of the Trueba family, split by political differences but unified by...
Bob Cousy, the smoothest passer basketball had ever seen, a man who both guarded and coached Oscar Robertson, says without the merest reservation, "Bird is simply the best who ever played this silly game." He includes Center Bill Russell, Cousy's Boston teammate, whose presence had the most to do...
I was once a witness to what you label a "rogue wind" in your article about the sinking of the Marques [NATION, June 18]. I was standing a watch belowdecks during a relatively calm stretch of weather after we had been forced to put to sea because of an approaching...
Everyone on deck was catapulted into the dark, heaving sea. "As she went under I levered myself onto the rail and was swept clear as she went under me," Sefton remembers. "As I stood on the poop rail I thought, 'Jump!' I went under water for a few...
Captain Sauer, who diverted the Zawisza Czarny from the race, arrived on the scene four hours later. He found only eight mates of the Marques alive to tell the tale. A ninth was rescued by another ship. It seems doubtful that any trace of the others will turn up; a...