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...General Sir John Hackett's two books noisily predicting a third world war. But Hackett's purpose was not to write novels; it was to use the techniques of fiction to argue his case for a buildup in conventional arms. An escape narrative must be nimbler. In The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and his later novels, Le Carré gave the spy thriller all the ideological baggage that the pockets of a trench coat could handle, namely the message that espionage is a dirty business whose dirt is fairly evenly distributed on both sides. Forsyth...
Journeying twelve miles to high school in Sterling (pop. 526), Steinkuhler played only eight-man football. Perhaps the larger emphasis on versatility in this game is what made him a faster, nimbler, smarter big man, and not just a mauler, though Steinkuhler is that too. He is gentle-spoken, all the same. With his glasses on, he seems too decent for trap blocking. "Every kid in Nebraska dreams of playing football for the Cornhuskers," he says. "Everything seems so big here, and it is big. I don't even know some guys' names, and that's pretty...
...first quake struck shortly before dawn, a strong, 6.3 nimbler that shook Mexico City a bit and unsettled the populace but inflicted no major damage. The really big quake hit nine hours later, when Pope John Paul II arrived at an airport named for a Mexican President famed for promulgating harsh anti-Catholic laws. John Paul had chosen to make this, his first international journey, to open a critical meeting of bishops from the length of Latin America that will provide the first major look at the policies of his fledgling papacy...
Navatte, a Paris law student, talks hopefully of forging many alliances with "the masses of dissatisfied people in the country and obliging the government to listen to us." The Socialist and Communist politicians and union leaders of France's big left-wing establishment let the nimbler New-Left radicals get ahead of them in 1968-a mistake they are determined not to make again...
Vapor Trails. In the North Vietnamese capital, 60 miles inland, loudspeakers urgently awakened the sleeping city: "Comrades, attention! The enemy is near Hanoi." At 9:30 a.m., the second wave of the U.S. air assault appeared. This time the raiders were 32 Air Force F-4 Phantoms, far nimbler than the high-and blind-flying B-52s; for nearly half an hour they bombed and strafed warehouses and petroleum storage areas on the outskirts...