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Pena, Augustino, Weiss and most of the other major characters in the novel are purely fictional. Oppenheimer, Fuchs, Edward Teller, General Leslie Groves and other walk-ons bear the names of actual people. The author is conspicuously selective about players who are not wholly owned subsidiaries of his imagination. For example, there is a part for Harry Gold, a confessed spy and Government witness in the case against Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. But missing from the book is David Greenglass, Ethel's brother and an Army machinist on the Manhattan Project who later testified that he had provided Gold...
...Hyatt Regency Hotel late last week, the air was filled with hubbub--and a sense of desperation. A total of 31 public and private corporations had set up interviewing tables to try to fill some 2,000 white-collar jobs, ranging from electrical engineer to word processor to bank teller, in the city's central business district. Some of the vacancies had gone unfilled for six months or more...
...questions haunting every child deprived of his genealogy. It is part confession, part portrait of Britain, with its intimidating social strata, its cloaked poverty and strained respectability. And it is incontrovertible proof that Dickens, the great middle-class fantasist, the maker of grotesques and waifs and seekers, was a teller of more enduring truths than even he suspected...
...novel within him, if only there were time to get it down on paper. Mercifully, most would-be authors never get beyond the stage of boring friends, acquaintances and airplane seatmates. Of those who do write, rather than just talking about it, few possess the tale teller's gift, the capacity to invent or recall events in a way that makes them seem significant to outsiders. Fewer still have the discipline to master a new craft. But four worthy current novels, all thrillers or mysteries, display just such painstaking effort by men better known for nonliterary achievements. They include...
...September l974, Vinson went to work as a teller trainee at Capital City Federal Savings & Loan Association (now called Meritor) in Washington. She says that the branch manager, Sidney Taylor, coerced her into a sexual relationship, sometimes having sex with her in the bank vault and in a basement storage area. When she pleaded with Taylor to leave her alone, Vinson says, he threatened her job and her life. She never complained to Capital City, and the bank says she rejected two opportunities to transfer to another branch. Vinson's version is that she asked for a transfer...