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...REUNION, by Merle Miller (345 pp.; Viking; $3.95). Author Miller, whose second novel, That Winter, showed him as a man who could write without having observed, has produced his fourth novel and can now safely be placed with that group of contemporary novelists who might be called Circumstantialists. The Circumstantialist, like the pack rat, cannot bear to throw anything away. Meticulously, he collects and records every circumstance of his characters' lives. Turning over every last scrap of detail, he seems to hope desperately that somewhere he and the reader may catch some glimpse of a real life beneath...
...filed an appeal for permanent residence. The local and Washington Immigration Offices approved and sent it to Montreal for signing--formal application requiring that the applicant sign in a foreign country. But here again his standing as "150X" prevented him from taking the last small step toward reunion. He could not leave the country for even the few hours necessary to sign the formal application...
...Reunion in Prague. The Mexican ambassador, hoping to get the widely hated Arbenz out of his embassy and into the air in secrecy, hired a commercial DC-4 and set its departure for midnight, but the press got wind of his plan. That evening some 500 antiCommunists, including many of the capital's well-heeled aristocracy, gulped their dinners and hurried to the airport to boo Arbenz...
...Orthodox churches refused to go along. Said Greek Orthodox Archbishop Michael: "We cannot speak of the repentance of the church, which is intrinsically holy and unerring . . . We believe that the return of the communions to ... the pure, unchanged and common heritage of the forefathers . . . shall alone produce the desired reunion . . . The Holy Orthodox Church alone has preserved in full and intact 'the faith once delivered to the saints.' " But no one thought that this generally foreseen dissent changed the picture. Norway's Bishop Eivind Berggrav, ruffed like a Holbein portrait in starchy white, pointed his sermon...
Boothbay Harbor, Me. for his 30th trip to the polar regions and a reunion with old Eskimo friends...