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...each consent to admit one lone 100 percenter (there to be pariah or sycophant for who knows how long). Above, in the library, like secret Teutonic Norns, the ICC meets in constant absolutely closed session, omnipotently spinning fate. Below them, 23 100 percenters remain, half of them Jewish. In Valhalla's lofty and concealed recesses, the list is gone over name by name: where are these to be placed...
Until Judge Russell Leggett sentences her on March 20, Harris will stay at the Westchester department of corrections complex in Valhalla, N.Y. As she arrived last week a few of the prison's 68 female inmates shouted at her, "You, Jean Harris, you're coming to join us!" Harris was led to her own 5-ft. by 7-ft. pink room, out of sight from most of the other inmates. A guard explained, "We don't want anyone to assault her." Harris' closest neighbor is a frail, wealthy and well-traveled woman who is awaiting trial...
Jack Higgins (The Eagle Has Landed) is a pseudonym of Harry Patterson (The Valhalla Exchange). Both names have become synonyms for popular thrillers, and Solo will not do the Higgins/Patterson reputation any harm. The trouble this time starts with a handsome Greek named John Mikali, who is not only a veteran of the French Foreign Legion but a world-famous pianist as well. Grieving over the death of his grandfather at the hands of the Greek junta, Mikali efficiently assassinates the colonel responsible and discovers that he has a genuine aptitude for this kind of work. He also...
...myths of battle is that the tempered veteran loses his fear. In Mowat's case, the "Worm That Never Dies" grows stronger with each new holocaust. The change can be read in his progressive perceptions of death. An early casualty seems almost comic, "marching blindly to Valhalla" off a landing barge into a geyser of exploding water. A hard eye and grim taste for simile take over in a description of a dying German truck driver, "hiccuping great gouts of cherry-pink foam . . . to the accompaniment of a sound like a slush pump." Still later, Mowat sees with surreal...
DIED. James G. Grant, 53, an associate editor at TIME for five years; of a heart attack; in Valhalla, N. Y. A veteran of Stars and Stripes in Berlin, Army Times in London and the Newburgh (N.Y.) News, Grant joined TIME in 1969, where he specialized in business writing and helped to launch the magazine's Energy section...