Word: sanctoning
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...least it will reassure whites who were beginning to think those with government connections could say and do anything they want." Much depends on the final outcome, but so far many observers found grounds for reassurance in Mugabe's handling of his first real crisis. -By Thomas A. Sancton. Reported by Peter Hawthorne/Salisbury
...some of the guests watched the Bruins defeat the Blackhawks at one end of the penthouse. Tommy Sancton '71 played New Orleans jazz on his clarinet at the other. In between, other guests drank beer and wine and talked about the good old days in Mass Hall...
COUNT ROLLER SKATES, by Thomas Sancton (383 pp.; Doubleday, $3.95), whizzes its screwball hero right through the mentally sound barrier. "Count Casimir Poliatoffsky" poses as a Polish nobleman and simultaneously claims to be descended from the Maya gods and the lost tribes of Israel, but he is actually half-Mexican. He once flopped as the star of a roller-skating show in Italy. Now he is a skilled grease monkey in a ship's engine room, and this uneven, offbeat first novel begins when one of the count's shipmates takes him home for dinner on a shore...
...death by a bordello madam, 3) two-times Hilda with a carnival doxy billed as ''Phazma the Phlame Girl." 4) has his second roller-skating show filched by a double-crossing partner, 5) goes back to the sea with visions of greater roller rinks. Obviously, Author Sancton, 41, a New Orleans newspaper man and onetime managing editor of the New Republic, intended these assorted ribbons of plot to package some large symbolic meaning. He is much better when he avoids his fuzzy cosmic fumbling and sticks to camera-eye reporting on jazz joints, brothels and the irrecoverable sights...
Filling all his jobs as the Journal's janitor, newsboy, ad salesman, reporter and make-up man keeps Owner-Editor Sancton hopping. He has also learned to make concessions to the sleepier standards of country journalism. When Royal Canadian Mounties nabbed Quebec's biggest cigarette smuggler in Stanstead County, Sancton filed a story to his old paper in Montreal. Correspondent Sancton scooped Editor Sancton by two days. But Journal readers were more interested in news of abiding matters-the farms, the factories, the water supply and the schools. Says happy Editor Sancton: "You visit a small town...