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...promote his boycott, Chavez has traveled from Los Angeles to Boston, picking up endorsements from such prominent politicians as Senators Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and Paul Simon of Illinois. Chavez thinks that if he can get 6% of the population to stop eating grapes, growers will be forced to listen to his union's complaints. ACQUISITIONS Old Profession, New Offering...
...near legendary windfall was made in a public offering by William Simon, Treasury Secretary in the Nixon and Ford Administrations. In 1982 a Simon-led group of investors put up $1 million of their own money and borrowed $79 million to buy the Gibson greeting-card company from RCA. They turned Gibson into a private firm and reorganized its operations. Then, just 18 months later, they sold $290 million worth of the company's stock to the public. Simon alone earned more than $15 million and wound up holding shares in Gibson worth about $50 million...
...than creaking doors, cracks on the head or the discovery of a nude, blond and comely corpse on page 32. This year has already seen hard-boiled volumes by Leonard, MacDonald and Robert B. Parker at the peak of their form, and cunning British psychological thrillers by Robert Barnard, Simon Brett, Ruth Rendell and the American would-be Briton Martha Grimes. The fall has brought a fresh crop, mostly from other hands. The styles range from taut police procedurals to literary romps, from old-fashioned puzzles to breezily constructed thrillers. These days the detective may be a policeman, a private...
Tickled to Death (Scribners; 231 pages; $13.95) is a collection of short stories, only one of them featuring Author Simon Brett's delightful amateur detective, the hammy and frequently out-of-work actor Charles Paris. Brett's ten Paris novels thrive on their bitchy wit and backstage authenticity. Outside those environs his writing can become fey and whimsical. But Brett is a specialist at sketching protagonists who are at once charming and palpably rotten, so that their ultimate escape or exposure remains a matter of genuine suspense...
...December 1941, within a few days of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Nazis began gassing Jews and Gypsies at a camp in Chelmno, Poland. More than 150,000 died there; two survived, and both offer their soul-scarred witness in Shoah. One of them, Simon Srebnik, was a boy of 13 at the time. Returning to Chelmno, he visits townspeople who were once enchanted by his beautiful singing voice. They also remember the screams of Jews locked in the local church before being taken away. At Treblinka, site of the Nazis' most efficient gas chambers, villagers recall standing...