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...predecessors, James Bond (Sean Connery) is once again the Fleming fantasy of the British savior. This time he comes to rescue Russia and the U.S., which teeter helplessly on the brink of war. Someone, it develops, has been hijacking both countries' space capsules as they orbit the earth, spiriting them away to places unknown. Both countries accuse each other, unaware that Peking and S.P.E.C.T.R.E. are behind it all. Naturally, the only one who can help is 007, who interrupts a love scene in Hong Kong with his Chinese mistress for the tiresome task of saving the world once more...
...match, on the long Pleasant Valley course in Sutton, teeter-tottered most of the afternoon. The individual contests were all runaways, but they were evenly balanced, three and three, until the last in which Carl Cunney of the Crusaders knocked off Roger Wales of Harvard on the final hole...
This is unpromising in summation and wholly unreadable in execution. The author's method is to teeter on the window ledge of actuality for a few sentences at the beginning of each chapter and then jump into vagueness, singing like Ophelia...
...Harvard Advocate last night elected Stuart A. Davis '67, of Leverett House and Winchester, Mass. president for 1965-66. Also elected were George Teeter '66, and James L. Toback '66, prose editors; Jonathan D. Culler '66, poetry editor; Inez Hedges '68, secretary; Carl F. Nathan '66, managing editor; and Richard I. Rubin '66, business manager...
Certainly he was as nimble and tricky a performer on the teeter-totter board of Communist politics as the world has seen. He was unique in being allowed to live abroad most of the time between World Wars. Back in Russia during World War II, he was Stalin's chief propagandist and heaped praise on his boss. After the war, though a Jew himself, he aided Stalin's ferocious purge of Soviet Jews by ridiculing Jewish solidarity and calling Israel a "laughable dwarf caoitalist state." After Stalin's death, Ehrenburg led the fight for freer artistic expression...