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Fray & Frazzle. Of recent books from both sides of the Channel about the greatest battle of the age of sail (Trafalgar, by Oliver Warner; Trafalgar, by Rene Maine), Dudley Pope, 34, British yachtsman, newsman, and merchant mariner, has written the best. In it he tries, and for the most part successfully, to reconstruct the historic engagement as it was seen by both officers and men, not only of the British Navy but of the Combined Fleets of France and Spain...
...past ten months, kidnapers have grabbed six millionaires and three wealthy children. One eleven-year-old boy is still missing after seven months, and a merchant named Koh Eng Pang bled to death in the front seat of his car after trying to fight off a kidnaper's ambush. More typical of the pattern was the case of Ong Cheng Siang, the chairman of a bus company, who disappeared last April while on the way home in his Mercedes-Benz. From the kidnapers the family got his car keys and a terse set of instructions. After paying a record...
...against Dictator Juan Peron and played amateur rugby at top speed, wheezing to the sidelines from time to time for whiffs from the inevitable atomizer. He still bitterly recalls one violent episode from this period. Sitting in a Buenos Aires bar one evening, Che was annoyed when a U.S. merchant seaman made a pass at a girl near Che. Che tried to get up to swing at him, but the bigger Yankee sailor slugged him twice, then casually put a giant paw on top of his head and pinned him down. Like a butterfly on a pin, a humiliated...
...moved to cut domestic consumption last April by imposing stiff restrictions on installment buying. He followed through last month by raising the bank rate to an anti-inflationary 6%. And Prime Minister Harold Macmillan began a series of pep talks designed to spur sales abroad. "We have always been merchant adventurers," he told a London audience of 400 top businessmen last week. "That is our tradition. I urge you to recruit your fellows into those noble ranks." He noted that "our German friends have coined a word, Exportfreudigkeit, or roughly 'export joy,' " and he invited his blue-chip...
...point was suspended from the House. With the coming of war, his was one of the first voices to call Winston Churchill to lead a national government, but in the midst of Britain's finest hour, he denounced the great man as "suffering from petrified adolescence." "Merchant of discourtesy!" stormed Churchill. "Better than being a wholesaler of disaster," countered Bevan. Churchill's most memorable phrase for Nye was "squalid nuisance," but the two had a wary respect for each other...