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With reason. The most celebrated theft of a Brasher doubloon occurred as fiction in Raymond Chandler's 1942 mystery The High Window, later made into a movie. But in 1965 real thieves snatched the Yale doubloon from Sterling Memorial Library. The university got it back only because a private detective, tipped off that a Chicago mobster had the coin, was able to apply...
...selected and retold by Italo Calvino -The Middle Ground, Margaret Drabble NONFICTION: American Dreams, Studs Terkel -The Magazine Maze, Herbert R. Mayes - Naming Names, Victor Navasky -Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan - "Watch Out for the Foreign Guests!" Orville Schell Ways of Escape, Graham Greene Wayward Reporter: The Life of A.J.Liebling, Raymond Sokolov...
Saunier-Seïté and Premier Raymond Barre, however, view the reorganization as a forward-looking step into the technological '80s. While slashing programs in the humanities and social sciences, the government did approve almost all (90%) of the science programs up for review, in line with a five-year plan that names technological research and development as the nation's top priority. The government also increased the 1981 national budget for universities...
NONFICTION: American Dreams, Studs Terkel ∙ The Girl I Left Behind, Jane O'Reilly ∙ Merton: A Biography, Monica Furlong ∙ Naming Names, Victor Navasky ∙ Vladimir Nabokov: Lectures on Literature, edited by Fredson Bowers ∙ Walt Whitman, Justin Kaplan ∙ Wayward Reporter: The Life of A.J. Liebling, Raymond Sokolov...
...citadel of Eastern elitism, Harvard: Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan, Attorney General William French Smith, Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis, Management and Budget Director David Stockman. A few have had Washington experience: Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Weinberger, Kirkpatrick and Watt. Others are outsiders: Secretary of Labor Raymond Donovan, Block and Edwards. The Cabinet is also divided between managers such as Regan and Weinberger and conceptualizers like Kirkpatrick and Stockman, who can be counted on for new, and maybe arresting, ideas...