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TELEPHONE POLES, by John Updike. Poems of grace, brevity, wit and wisdom by a man who was a light-versifier before he was a novelist.
Potatoes for Survival. Last week Bolivia's President Victor Paz Estenssoro, 56, flew to the U.S. for a state visit. Most inhabitants of the altiplano-who don't even know what goes on in La Paz-were unaware that he had gone. It is spring in the Southern...
TELEPHONE POLES by John Updike. 83 pages. Knopf. $4.
The authors' case against the appeasers is most devastating at its most intimate. They reveal the furious maneuvers of Chamberlain to avoid war before Munich and the cowardly attempts to coerce the Poles in August 1939. During negotiations, "the appeasers never remained firm for long. The essence of their craft...
Six Russian gymnacrobats begin their act by holding themselves in the air at arm's length from vertical poles while they spin around in circles, smiling. An alpine aerialist climbs a high wire 45° steep with two women standing on his head. Four girls in sequined lavender bikinis...