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It had been a proud year for the boys of Lanfranc. a 700-student vocational high school in the sprawling London suburb of Croydon. Led by agile Wicket-keeper Trevor Cowdell, 15, and Captain-elect John Wells, 14. Lanfranc's cricket team was unbeatable, the best in all Surrey...
Two years ago, we embarked on a rather rugged hitchhiking tour of the western U.S. Although traveling with only knapsacks on our backs, we found room for a stove, transistor radio, camera and a fishing pole.
JIMMY RIDDLE, by Ian Brook (317 pp.; Putnam; $3.95) has as its hero the Walter Mitty ideal of every British public-school boy who grew up to be a frustrated colonial civil servant. Blond, bronzed and rugged, Jimmy Riddle is district commissioner of darkest Alabasa province in an unnamed British...
The other issue that might tilt Afghans into the Russian camp is their prickly relations with Pakistan. The rugged mountain terrain between the two nations is inhabited by wild Pushtu-speaking Pathan tribesmen-some 9,000,000 on the Pakistan side of the border alone. The Pathans love to shoot...
The small, quiet funeral took place four days later in the placid village cemetery of Ketchum. To the north, the peaks of the rugged Sawtooth Mountains were still capped with snow. To the east lay the lavish summer greenery of the Wood River Valley. Around the rose-covered coffin gathered...