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Death of an Expert Witness by P.D. James (Scribner's; $8.95). Since James, 57, is English and a woman, she is frequently hailed as a worthy successor to Christie, Sayers, Margery Allingham and Ngaio Marsh. James' knowledge of locale (in this case, East Anglia's murky, misty fen country) and contemporary mores (some pretty kinky), her familiarity with forensic science (which is what Expert's plot is mostly about) and keen psychological insight, all mark her as an original. Her seventh and best mystery novel brings back Scotland Yard's Adam Dalgliesh, who writes offbeat...
Kevin "Cat" Keelan, voted the best goalie in England by the British press this year. The agile goaltender proved himself worthy of the honor in a number of spectacular and acrobatic saves against Tampa's Rodney Marsh...
...terminus at Komsomolsk, 565 miles north of Vladivostok. By the time the last rail is laid in 1983, the cost of the project, now one-third cornplete after three years of work, may reach $15 billion-twice the price of the Alaska pipeline. TIME'S Moscow bureau chief Marsh Clark flew from Khabarovsk on the Manchurian border to a construction site on BAM's eastern end for a look at the work in progress. His report...
...fascinations of compiling such a story was documenting the startling contrasts of worldwide socialism. While Moscow Bureau Chief Marsh Clark watched Soviet President...
Reports TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Marsh Clark: "The elite here have more of the good things of life vis-a-vis their average countrymen than do the West's richest businessmen in relation to a man on welfare. In the Soviet Union, various grades of apparatchiks have access to special stores that sell imported and otherwise scarce goods at very low prices. Behind a door marked 'Office of Passes' on Granovsky Street not far from the Kremlin, a windowless emporium offers a cornucopia of meats, fruits, vegetables and imported delicacies to the shishki (big shots). The average Ivan and Natasha...