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Like Genet, John Osborne is nauseated by society, but he is less ambiguous and symbolic, more direct and realistic. There is more than a trace of Captain Bligh in him, except that he is both martinet and mutineer. He reads the riot act to his times in the accents of self-hatred. Bill Maitland says, "I myself am more packed with spite and twitching with revenge than anyone I know of. I actually often, frequently, daily want to see people die for their errors. I wish to kill them myself, to throw the switch with my own fist." There...
...wintertime Down Under. The beaches were deserted, the bikinis packed away, the tennis stars halfway around the world at Wimbledon. Both the Sydney press and the Canberra embassy cocktail circuit were hard up for a topic. Then, voila! The Malaysian High Commissioner to Australia disappeared without a trace. Who? Well, actually, even in sleepy Canberra Tun Lim Yew Hock, 51, wasn't exactly well known; but once he had dropped from sight, suddenly almost everyone recalled having seen the dapper, pipe-smoking little diplomat at parties or the Canberra race track where, it was whispered excitedly, he had lost...
Searchers, who suspected this time that the abductor was Bicycle Bill, combed the area for five days without finding a trace of man or girl. Then, while helping to scour a rocky ridge, FBI Agent Terry Anderson, 42, spotted one of Hollenbaugh's dogs, followed it -and was shot dead. More bullets fired from the underbrush killed one tracking German shepherd that lunged after the fugitive, and wounded the dog's partner. When Hollenbaugh and Peggy were spotted moving away from the scene shortly afterward, the authorities mounted the biggest man hunt in Pennsylvania's history...
...State Department was predictably annoyed. They even set the FBI to work - unsuccessfully - trying to trace the leak. But Reston was not flustered. And his scoop was only beginning...
...nerve-shattering harassment has been to change the telephone number and have it unlisted. For, as she quickly discovers, simply hanging up does not break the circuit, which is controlled by the caller. To apprehend him, the police tell the victim to keep the caller talking until they can trace the call and, in some cases, have her make an appointment with the caller...