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...fifth novel is his first set in the West. The Sporting Club, his debut, occurs up in Michigan, Hemingway country, while his best novel, Ninety-Two in the Shade, takes place in Key West (again Hemingway turf), where McGuane lived and worked. Although McGuane, 42, moved to Livingston, Mont., in 1968, he has not mined the region until now. His Montana has none of the romantic magic of Zane Grey's glowing hills. In Nobody's Angel the sky is harsh, the mountains formidable, the rivers icebound. The town of Deadrock (read Livingston) is the focal point...
John R. Taylor Billings, Mont...
...wake of the tragedy of Air Florida Flight 90 [Jan. 25], airlines should set up final de-icing procedures where and when it will do the most good-at the end of the taxiing runway just prior to takeoff. Laurence J. McCaffery Butte, Mont...
...permission to join her husband, Alexei Semyonov, 25, a graduate student in mathematics at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. Semyonov had emigrated to the U.S. 3½ years ago, but Alexeyeva was not allowed to leave the Soviet Union. When they were married by proxy last summer in Butte, Mont., Soviet authorities did not acknowledge the ceremony...
...vote against it. Said Leahy: "He was keeping up with me and giving me a running commentary." At the White House, Reagan plied Leahy with 45 minutes' worth of jelly beans and talk about his hobby, photography. The Senator told Reagan that he would go home to Ver mont and consider his vote. "When you're walking those fields and looking over those beautiful mountains, think of my face up there in the sky looking down on you," the President said. Replied Leahy: "I'll have to go to the Capitol physician first...