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...well trained on alien terrain and kept her psychic distance from her overwhelming subject. Imbued with some of the 1960s suspicions of practical politics, she is fair to L.B.J. but unfailingly cool. To her, Johnson is a monstrous amalgam of political good and evil, worthy of meticulous dissection. Her scalpel is cutting, and the wounds inflicted will not be easily healed by later biographers. In her book, Johnson is naked to his enemies as he never was when alive...
...Morgan (now with San Diego) urged his frustrated pupil to slow his delivery. With that, Ryan started to develop a sharp curve and an effective change-up-"the only 90 m.p.h. change-up in the majors," jokes Fellow Angel Pitcher Bill Singer. Meanwhile Ryan had started using a scalpel to shave off the scar tissue and calluses on his ringers, under which blisters were forming. (To this day he spends five minutes before every start carefully trimming excess skin off the tips of his pitching fingers.) Soon the results were visible in the win column: 19 victories his first year...
Determined to get by force what it could not get at the Geneva negotiating table, Turkey last week again broke the unsteady Cyprus truce. With as much ease as a surgeon wielding a scalpel across the dusky Cypriot plain, Turkish forces supported by tanks, jets and ar tillery moved out of their previously held strongpoints around Kyrenia and Nicosia and within 40 hours crossed to the other side of the island at Famagusta, neatly taking control of the northeastern third of the island in what well may be a permanent division line between the Turkish and Greek Cypriot communities...
...contemporary to be authentic, brings some new life to tired old combat comedy situations, and here and there some jewels sparkle: during an exchange of insults, one soldier is told, "You got enough ugly to open a branch face." In what must be an inevitable comparison with the scalpel wit and truly black comedy of M*A*S*H*, however, the sad fact is that Roll Out seems as old-fashioned...
...Crichton is learning the movie business. Right down to those hard-boiled comments as familiar on film sets as in the operating room. Not that he ever spent much time in surgery. At Harvard, Crichton used a pen more often than a scalpel. Before graduating he had published half a dozen paperback thrillers under the name of John Lange. He also researched Five Patients, his documentary about the workings of a large medical center. In 1968 A Case of Need won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award. For that book -a swiftly plotted story biased in favor of abortion...