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...ships, not as powerful as their U.S. opposites (cruisers of the Brooklyn class) but not taken lightly by U.S. Navy men. Swedish naval intelligence revealed that last month, two of these sleek new Soviet sharks (probably the Chapaev and the Chkalov) slipped out of the Baltic through the Oresund strait between Denmark and Sweden. It was the first time since the late 1930s that heavy Soviet naval vessels had been out in the Atlantic...
...whose avowed hobby is "collecting cliches." Malone has other off-beat mannerisms: he avoids fights, employs a masseur, and dislikes guns because "they remind me of weddings." Currently unsponsored, Malone had some fast-paced dialogue by Scripter Eugene Wang, is packed with such novelties as an effeminate gunman, a strait-laced gambler fretting about his daughter's morals, a policeman who was on the right track from the start...
...STRAIT AND NARROW (384 pp.)-Geoffrey Cotterell-Lippincott...
Cotterell's fourth novel (and first to be published in the U.S.) is a British Book Society choice, has sold 40,000 copies since publication. Strait and Narrow is simply the story of a self-made man, Richard Tarrant, and what Tarrant learns about himself...
From the Gulf of California to the Strait of Magellan, 125 million Latin Americans braced themselves hopefully this week for the gayest, gaudiest carnaval in years...