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DIVORCE AMERICAN STYLE. A slick, cynical film that nevertheless has the courage to show Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds as less than sympathetic...
...South Viet Nam is now a citadel of sovereignty that even Hanoi admits cannot be taken by overt aggression. In that sense, the conventional war is no longer a contest. "The U.S. can defeat us in positional warfare," is the blunt admission of North Vietnamese Lieut. General Nguyen Van Vinh, deputy chief of staff in Hanoi...
...Margaret Van Alen Bruguiere, the summer colony's grande dame, still lives in her 50-room "cottage," Wake-hurst, surrounded by a fortune in art and a dozen servants. Bailey's Beach, where the memberships pass from father to son, is still "the most exclusive swimming hole in the U.S." In the Newport Casino, ladies still sip tea under parasols, while their husbands, decked out in white flannels and old school blazers, watch the tennis matches. And at nightfall, there is the Preservation Society Ball, the Tennis Ball, the White Elephant Ball, the Jazz Festival, plus a progression...
MURDER IN CANTON by Robert van Gulik. 206 pages. Scribner...
This is the 16th Judge Dee novel by Robert van Gulik, 57, who is the Netherlands' Ambassador to Japan and an Oriental scholar. His writing lacks somewhat in professional sheen, but Scholar Gulik more than compensates with rich and accurate historical detail of the Tang dynasty. The manners and mores, the factionalism and regionalism of that ancient era suggest that modern China is not, after all, much more adept at maintaining the writ of Peking over the vast, disparate reaches and peoples of the Asian Goliath...