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While the House committee last week was dousing old conspiracy theories, a new one was being lighted?and in the unlikeliest of places: Moscow?by Author Julian Semyonov. His theory, published in the Russian weekly Ogonyok: Lee Harvey Oswald was a Chinese agent, and the conspiracy to kill the President was a joint effort of American gangsters and anti-Soviet strategists in Peking...
...sends a Hollywood screenwriter on an engrossing psychological pilgrimage that undermines contemporary modish despair. Falconer by John Cheever. The loneliness of prison and memories is the theme of this deeply emotional novel. The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré. The further adventures of George Smiley, Britain's unlikeliest superspy, as well as a pitiless dissection of contemporary moral dilemmas. The Professor of Desire by Philip Roth. In presenting yet another of his Jewish intellectual heroes wrestling with sex and guilt, Roth enhances his reputation as one of the most consistently readable authors now at work. Song of Solomon...
Last week CBS and the Block Drug Co. combined to make the unlikeliest gunfighters since Batman and Robin. Together they had stood off the 1 million-strong National Rifle Association and its allies, the firearms manufacturers and game-preserve associations. That is more than Congress has been able to accomplish...
...able to bless his congregation, in a sermon on a text from Corinthians, "we are of all men most miserable." It is a triumph of faith, in a godless time, from the unlikeliest of believers...
Pandas are popping up in the unlikeliest places, and so are polar bears, tigers, alligators, orangutans and dozens of other endangered species. They are seen on the fronts of men's ties, on the backs of women's slacks and peering from inside snuffboxes. The animal images are part of an expanding program by the U.S. branch of the World Wildlife Fund to raise money to study and set up preserves for species that are threatened with extinction. In return for a percentage of profits on products depicting these creatures, the fund has made deals with eight companies...