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...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:30 p.m.). Hollywood's version of The Story of Ruth (which varies a bit from the King James Version) is not bad by Bible-film standards. Peggy Wood goest whither, and Elana Eden goes with...
...obsessively sending millions of words to Washington. With his tongue only barely tucked in his cheek, Thomas A. Donovan, former U.S. consul in Iran, writes: "Background studies on such live topics as Recurrent Themes in the Bulgarian Press Treatment of the Black Sea as a Sea of Peace or Whither Thuringia: the Principality's Progress Under the New Course are considered useful for filling the files at home." In Paris, an embassy labor attache, leaving after four years, remarked ruefully that he doubted if anyone anywhere had really read one of his reports. The result is that communications break...
Whence and whither this prodigy, I wondered. He turned out to be a warm, approachable person and a voluble conversationalist. He punctuates his talk frequently with such queries as, "D'you know what I mean?" and, on being reassured, hurries right on to another point...
Brazil's favorite guessing game for the last four weeks has been "Whither Brizola?" A demagogic leftist Congressman and brother-in-law of deposed President João Goulart, Leonel Brizola had last been seen two days after the revolution, scooting up a Pôrto Alegre street in a green Volkswagen-an angry, rock-throwing crowd chasing him on foot. Then he dropped from sight. Was he hiding out in his home town of Pôrto Alegre? "Impossible," sniffed the Pôrto Alegre military. "We would have captured him." Uruguay? "Impossible," echoed the border patrol...
Within an hour the vicious villain has slandered the hero's good name, persuaded the gullible Allworthy to disown him, extracted from Squire Western a promise that Sophie will become his bride instead of Tom's. Appalled, Sophie flees to London, whither Tom is also bound. Western and Blifil set out in hot pursuit, and the next hour is crammed with all manner of violent and absurd adventures: desperate duels, rascally robberies, satanic stranglings, egregious escapes, and any number of precipitate plunges into a fate nobody seems to consider worse than death. At the climax poor dear Sophie...