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...TEMPTATION OF JACK ORKNEY AND OTHER STORIES...
...notable exception is the extraordinary 77-page title story, "The Temptation of Jack Orkney." Jack Orkney is a British journalist and author, a secular saint of the socialist old guard who could always be depended on to whip up a manifesto or organize a protest. At middle age, Orkney has survived ideological squalls with his honor intact. He and his wife enjoy a warm, understanding relationship. His daughters are grown and liberated; his son is a chip off the old radical bloc. But when Orkney is called north to the bedside of his dying father, he begins to have cold...
When he returns to London, Orkney starts going to church. At the British Museum reading room he soaks up religious history, anthropology and Simone Weil. Friends call to see if he is all right. He is. His dreams have revealed the neglected half of his existence-the part that was always larger than his politics or his personal ego. His life jumps into sharp focus. He sees that his son is fated to learn all the old lessons as if they were new. He gets the truth about himself and his old-guard comrades just right. "Once they had forecast...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Six British mountaineers top the Old Man of Hoy, a windswept. 450-ft. sandstone pinnacle in the Orkney Islands of Scotland...
...taxi outfits, which have sprung up around the world to serve the short runs now spurned by big jets, the Islander is in remarkable demand. Since the first production model appeared barely 18 months ago, 16 air-taxi companies have put the plane into service from Scotland's Orkney Islands to Australia's Great Barrier Reef. More than 200, worth a total of $15 million, are now on order, and production is sold out well into 1969. With 800 workers straining to increase the Islander's one-a-week rate, Britten-Norman Co-Founder Desmond Norman...