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Irving appears to see himself as a defiant Hemingway hero. He begins his narrative with those familiar short sentences: "The Juan March stood off the docks of Palma harbor. I needed coffee." Like so many would-be Hemingway heroes, though, he sees the role largely in terms of self-indulgence. He has a finca and a Mercedes and a pet monkey, and he boasts of his romantic adventures in a prose style that would embarrass even the creator of Across the River and into the Trees. Of Nina, he writes: "Call it love, call it madness -it may have been...
...compared with the regular tourist-class minimum fare of $282, a student aged 16 to 24 can buy one-way passage to or from a dozen European ports. The line's four floating palazzi stop at some out-of-the-way places, including Tenerife, Palermo, Palma de Majorca and Algeciras, as well as at Lisbon, Cannes, Naples and Genoa. Student-fare travelers will enjoy the same accommodations (two, three or four to a cabin) as regular tourist-class passengers. They will also have the same amenities: swimming pool, 2 a.m. pizza parties and three other meals a day, with...
Slam! Chop! From that day on, Fischer has been a man possessed. Needing to place only sixth or better at the interzonal tournament in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, to qualify for the next round of the world championship, he not only won by a wide margin but swept his last seven games in a row. That advanced him to a match against veteran Soviet Grand Master Mark Taimanov in Vancouver last year. Fischer defeated him in six straight games. Then, last July in Denver, Fischer took on Denmark's Bent Larsen, ranked second only to Bobby in the West...
...million annual budget). Rogers had been pushing the same argument behind closed doors for weeks, but submitting to private blackmail is one thing, and openly acknowledging that one is yielding to pressure is quite another. As part of a modest Administration retreat, Assistant Secretary of State Samuel de Palma denied that the U.S. was resorting to "blackmail." "No threat of that kind is being made," he said-though of course...
Others followed rapidly. Kent Philpott and a few fellow seminarians at Golden Gate Baptist Seminary opened their own houses, Soul Inn and Berachah House, and those, in turn, produced other spinoffs. Success in the Bay Area prompted attempts elsewhere: Dave Palma, 20, founder of the House of Pergamos there, is now trying to introduce the idea to New York City. There are now, by conservative estimate, more than 200 communes in California, and still others in the Pacific Northwest, Chicago, Detroit and other cities...