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Latest crusader for the Marilyke look is the Rev. Charles Varga, 27, pastor of St. John the Apostle Church in Linden, N.J. No retailer in Father Varga's parish has so far turned the tagging committee away, though many have managed to keep their enthusiasm within bounds. "Of course we let them tag the dresses," said one Linden shopkeeper. "What are we going to do - commit business suicide? This is a 65% Catholic community." But one buyer in a large Manhattan department store declared that "some of [the Marilyke dresses] are so cute we've put them...
...Paris office has not yet received Vishinsky's renewal, but they expect it will arrive, as it did a year ago. Similar letters will go out, when their renewal dates turn up, to Russian Economist Eugene S. Varga and to Boris B. Boldyrev at the Society for Cultural Relations. Forty copies of TIME go each week to the Russian Military Mission in Tokyo and dozens of others to subscribers in Russia and her satellites...
There is no escaping his duty; Dr. Varga decides to operate. But he finds himself increasingly distracted by: 1) Pamela Vaughan, the good-looking nurse from the British hospital in Port Aarif, and 2) a whole array of El Bekkaa's subjects, who urge him to let his knife slip during the operation...
...Varga listens to the list of the governor's villainies, he can't help sympathizing with the malcontents, but then, there is his Hippocratic oath. What should he do? Moreover, what should he do about Nurse Vaughan? Nothing works out right for Dr. Varga. He loses both the girl and the patient, and his own brief career in Port Aarif comes to an abrupt end when the governor's bodyguards take after him with silver daggers...
...Novelist Tabori gives it a twisting curve; he adds a long Part Two describing an unlabeled Arabian revolutionary movement which has been fighting to overthrow the governor. The epilogue has little to do with the bulk of the novel, and it raises the disconcerting suspicion that Tabori meant Dr. Varga's story as some sort of significant parable. This suspicion is confirmed by the dust jacket, whereon the author calls his story "a comment on the tragedy of the liberal." All in all, this is a little like being taken on a tour of Coney Island and then being...