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Author Fuchs's three stories are lit with flashes of gallows humor, particularly Twilight in Southern California, in which an egocentric Pagliacci of the novelty business grimaces and clowns his way through a party while his firm takes the long slide into bankruptcy. The finance company has his Cadillac...
Nagy knew that the Soviet tanks, so sharply stopped by the young rebels, were merely drawn from one of the nearby divisions, and were no measure of the true strength of the Red army. He knew that new divisions were massing on Hungary's frontiers. He saw Soviet diplomats...
Not Peace but a Sword. Seven months ago Dag Hammarskjold rushed to the Middle East and signed all parties to a ceasefire. In a major speech to the Knesset, Ben-Gurion declaimed: "Preventive war would be madness." But all the time Israel prepared. Last month, when Iraqi troops were reported...
To the average citizen the Anglo-French behavior seems so incredible that he cannot imagine what could have been done about it. Actually, however, the United States did have some advance warning in the massing of Israeli troops on the border. Considering Anglo-French feeling about Suez and the Arabs...
This was the reality behind all the appearances. From military encampments on the Salisbury Plain, Britain moved more troops toward embarkation ports and the eastern Mediterranean. In Paris the Defense Ministry announced appointment of three-star General André Beaufre, an expert on airborne operations, to command a new "Mediterranean...