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...with charts showing the deployment of warplanes around the world and the threat they represent to American security. What Ralston doesn't point out is that this ominous global collection of nearly 6,000 advanced warplanes includes those of Britain, France, Canada--everyone except the U.S. Nor does he mention that many of the warplanes on his chart rolled off U.S. assembly lines...
...only should Holocaust victims or their relatives have the opportunity to retrieve money and possessions [WORLD, Feb. 24], but they should also collect interest from the Swiss banks. And they shouldn't even have to mention the word lawsuit. SIMON HUCK Ottawa...
...didn't mention the scores of people who benefited from the guarded nature of Swiss banking. The real story is not so one-sided as you would lead people to believe. WILLIAM R. HOLTZ Thonex, Switzerland
...description is stale and does not suit Wayne the way it does quieter, more mysterious figures like Gary Cooper and Randolph Scott. For the Duke was only intermittently like them--in The Big Trail, his first starring role, or in the starkly iconographic Hondo, which Wills unaccountably fails to mention. Mostly his character was not a man escaping civilization and its discontents but one bringing them to the wilderness. Discounting the many B-westerns he made in his early days, he played more military men, lawmen and empire builders than he did freelance saddle tramps. "Wayne?s imposing physical presence...
...myth-making and myth-mapping lie both on the surface and beneath the waves of the novel. Critics mention patterns alluding to the Odyssey, Huckleberry Finn and Moby Dick, but the most evident and important allusions are to the Odyssey itself and to James Joyce's towering modern interpretation of that epic, Ulysses. It's probably not unfair to say that Hall seems to be trying to create a contemporary, child's-scale version of Ulysses. The intriguing thing about Saskia is that her adventures, while densely packed with meaning, are also straightforwardly narrated; precocious kids--like the hero herself...