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...Orleans, a meeting with Abe Lincoln (who spots him for a fraud, but not before Flashman tosses off a nice line about fooling some of the people all of the time), and a brief term of actual enslavement. "By the time you laboured in the sun a spell, you brown up pretty good, I reckon," says the plantation owner. Thereafter Flashy manages a cold-sweat crossing of the Ohio River on-what else?-ice floes, and demonstrates (again and again) his unusual if limited talents ("I doubt if there's a man living who can move faster with...
What do Soviet leaders really think about world affairs these days? In recent months, the Kremlin has provided few clues to its attitudes. Last week, though, Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev used the occasion of a speech to Russia's Trade Unions Congress to spell out the Moscow position on a number of major foreign policy issues. The Brezhnev speech, which ran for 90 minutes, was generally moderate and confident in tone. Major points...
...which could spell trouble with a capital T for Dave Gauthier tomorrow afternoon when he meets Bob O'Meara for an all-Hollis 185-pound freshman final in the annual Harvard intramural boxing championships at the Indoor Athletic Building...
...More often than not, he lives within a few minutes' bicycle ride of his factory. The workday begins at 7:30, not at the assembly line but in the factory recreation hall, with a study session on Maoist thought. Working conditions are adequate: safety regulations spell out the proper procedures for operating machinery, for instance, but set down few guidelines for personal safety. Factories pay compensation, however, for job-caused injuries or death. Foremen tend to be chosen mainly for their job expertise, though political correctness remains important too, and the ablest serve on the factory...
...energetic Vandervane in this novel is his friend Douglas Yandell, the 34-year-old narrator. Yandell, a competent, dull music critic, hangs on to his job at a London paper "if only to keep out the sort of little mountebank likely to do a turn at it between a spell on the books page and the real prize spot, the restaurant column...