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...high in the Alps of Southeastern France, were shepherds and mountain climbers who risked the punishing 6,000-ft. trek from the village of St.-Dalmas-de-Tende, 30 miles northeast of Nice. The travelers all brought back tales of mysterious rock carvings, but no one could explain their origin. Were the ancient artists some Carthaginians who once lived in the region? Were they prehistoric men? Now, as a result of on-site study by a French archaeologist, the secrets of the carvings are beginning to come clear...
...George McGovern," said Will Jr., "I am confident he would have liked him. My father's writing should not be twisted and distorted by either party. This is very bad taste." The Committee for the Re-Election of the President denied authorizing the sticker, but traced its origin to a television repairman from Midwest City, Okla. Obviously, Will Rogers never met a TV repairman...
...draft treaty glossed over a serious weakness, one that caused the failure of a special meeting on skyjacking held in Washington last month by members of the International Civil Aviation Organization. There, the Soviet Union demanded that all skyjackers, without exception, be returned to their country of origin. The U.S. and Western European nations oppose any resolution that might end the traditional right to grant political sanctuary. Even Israel, the strongest advocate of anti-terror measures, would be in a quandary if Soviet Jews were to skyjack an Aeroflot plane and fly it to Tel Aviv...
...ideas, engaging in the political affairs of his time. Swanberg's book is less a biography than an ideological assessment, and it soon becomes an all-out political assault on Luce-for his muscular Christianity, his anti-Communist internationalism, and his notion that divine providence helped in the origin of the American experiment and gave America a special mission to help make the world safe for democracy...
Barth is fond these days of recounting the origin of Giles Goat-Boy, his next novel. It seems that critics of The Sot-Weed Factor began commenting on the similarity between that novel's protagonist and the archetypal mythic hero--with his innocence, his rite of sexual initiation, his quest and so on. Barth himself protests that such similarity was quite unconscious, but once alerted, he set out to make good use of it. Written with the same complexity of plot and wild comedy that filled The Sot-Weed Factor. Giles Goat-Boy is the tale of George Giles, Everyhero...