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...much of a story. An air force installation takes over" the English village in which Roy, the young narrator, grew up; it soon becomes clear that the air vice marshal in charge is scheming to take over the earth. Meanwhile the world that Roy knew is crumbling in other ways. He is told that the couple who raised him are not his parents. His marriage to a barmaid named Bess sours under the possibility that she may be his sister, as well as under her adulterous preference for the flight lieutenant from the aerodrome. The air vice marshal...
...clarity of which Kafka, whom Warner admires and emulates, never felt the need. "I began to see," says Roy, "that this life, in spite of its drunkenness and inefficiency, was wider and deeper than the activity in which we were constricted by the iron compulsion of the air vice marshal's ambition, a life whose very vagueness concealed a wealth of opportunity, whose uncertainty called for adventure, a life whose unwieldiness was the consequence of its immensity...
...music halls, where she delighted Paris with her naughty-haughty sketches of Mesdames DuBarry and Pompadour, all the while causing equally spectacular offstage tremors with her collection of celebrated admirers, which included Russia's Nicholas II, Egypt's King Fuad, France's Premier Clemenceau and Marshal Foch, Italy's Mussolini and England's Edward VII; of a heart attack; in Deauville...
...World War II, Yugoslavs have talked only in whispers about the dreaded UDBA (for Uprava Drzavne Bezbednosti), or State Security Directorate, a faceless army of 20,000 or so state snoopers who modeled themselves after the Soviet secret police. But after finding a listening device in his own bedroom, Marshal Tito two months ago called for sweeping reforms and fired the security chief, Vice President Aleksandar Rankovic, 56. As a result, UDBA has become fair game for exposes...
Ousted Executioner. The army's elevated role has moved Defense Minister Lin Piao, 59, into favored position to succeed the 72-year-old Mao. Lin's position was buttressed by last week's announcement that Marshal Lo Juiching, chief of the army general staff and leader of the massive executions in the mid-1950s (TIME cover, March 5, 1956), had been replaced by a Lin protégé and thus presumably purged. Lo made the mistake of arguing that the army should stay out of politics...