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...core." It has something to do with a life of mothering animals. Her recollection of being hit by lightning: "It felt as though sequins had been poured down my legs." Left to her own literary devices, Ehrlich sometimes lapses into fancy-pants prose. But when dealing with chores, weather and characters, her writing has a hard, clean edge, unblunted by the world she is trying to leave behind...
Reaganauts in the Defense Department accuse the uniformed brass of paying only lip service to the need to build up U.S. Special Forces. In early December, for example, the Air Force canceled an annual inspection of the First Special Operations Wing, at Hurlburt Field, Fla. Officially, bad weather was blamed for the cancellation. The real reason, according to the monthly Armed Forces Journal: all eleven helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft were down for repairs...
...airlines battle it out, the only clear winners will be their customers. Ellen Farmer, a legal secretary in Elgin, Ill., plans to take a break from the cold weather later this month by boarding Midway Airlines' $99 flight from Chicago to Orlando. Says she: "I don't think Midway would have had such a low fare if People Express hadn't forced them...
...making it aviation's deadliest year. The worst crash occurred when a Japan Air Lines 747 slammed into a mountain last August, killing 520 people in history's largest single-plane accident. In Dallas 134 died when a Delta L-1011 crashed trying to land in bad weather. Another 329 people lost their lives in the midair breakup of an Air-India 747 off Ireland. In December a DC-8 military charter crashed and burst into flames while taking off from Gander, Newfoundland, instantly killing the 248 U.S. soldiers and eight crew members on board. Then, just last week, Singer...
London Match brings Samson, the weather-beaten fieldman, back from Mexico City and Berlin to fester among intelligence bureaucrats in England. Stinnes must be debriefed if he is not a plant and foiled if he is. Samson, under suspicion because of Fiona's bad behavior, gets the assignment. He is impeded not so much by Stinnes and his ex-wife, though she is threatening to grab their children, as by his superiors. These careerists are, variously, twits, fops, climbers and pooh-bahs whose entire interest is in position, perks and, after they have dithered and muddled for a sufficient number...