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...handy word regularly inserted in the second sentence of news reports after the race driver wins his race or loses it or qualifies for it in record time. "The day was marred . . ." Not ruined completely, just slightly marred, as our small pleasures are forever being slightly marred. Gordon Smiley was slightly marred at Indianapolis two weekends ago, just as Gilles Villeneuve had been in Belgium the week before that. They are dead, of course...
...think Gordon wanted was a piece of the action," said Driver Bill Alsup at Smiley's funeral. "Gordon didn't know anything but 'fast,' " said Derek Mower, Smiley's crew chief. "If you hit wrong, I don't care if you're in a Sherman tank," said A.J. Foyt. "It's all over." Then Dennis Firestone, Smiley's close friend, dried his tears and went out and qualified for this Sunday's race. "I know Gordon would have wanted me to," he said...
...been wrong in appointing Hugel. Most surprising of all, the reticent, publicity-shy Admiral Inman went on ABC's Night-line TV program to deny rumors that he was leading a coup against Casey. Declared one astonished former CIA spook: "That's like seeing George Smiley appear on the Gong Show...
...gangs also rob, assault and occasionally kill nonmembers, almost at will. Clifford Smiley, 14, who was once attacked and beaten by four gang members for no apparent reason, is resigned to life in a battle zone. Like most residents, he does not venture outside after dark, even to visit someone in a neighboring building. Says he: "If you can't talk to your friend on the telephone, you can't talk to him at all." Last summer during a card game in an open-air hallway, Terri Burch, 17, was shot in the leg by a sniper...
...Arkady is not the customary exotic beloved by lending-library readers. For too long, detective fiction has been populated with deliberately unusual sleuths-omniscient priests and wonder rabbis, black, Oriental and Indian investigators whose ethnicity is more important than their cases. If Arkady has any equivalent it is George Smiley, the resolutely unglamorous star of John le Carré's spyworks. Like Smiley, Arkady has an inconstant wife; like him he is beset with interdepartmental intrigue and divided loyalties...