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...investigate the current state of these fine old sins, London's Sunday Times recently commissioned essays on them from a septet of England's wiliest, wittiest penmen. Nontheologians all, the Sunday Times sin samplers range from longtime agnostic and Critic Cyril Connolly, whose report on covetousness is a jaunty little tale of how a greedy antique collector comes to a Bad End, to Roman Catholic Poetess Dame Edith Sitwell, who rather admired the sin assigned to her. "Pride may be my own besetting sin," she wrote, "but it is also my besetting virtue. Certainly my life has been...
...wiliest guerrillas in the Communist Pathet Lao are Meos, who scamper by night over mountain slopes that would terrify the valley-dwelling Lao. On the pro-Western side. Colonel Vang Pao, a Royal Army Meo, has held stubbornly to a precipitous stronghold deep inside Communist territory, nicknamed "Happy Valley" by the U.S. pilots who must swoop down into it to land supplies...
...wiliest space grabbers ever to bamboozle an editor, New York Press-agent Jim Moran, 51, has found a needle in a haystack (after 82 hr. 35 min.), hatched an ostrich egg (19 days on the nest), sold an icebox to an Eskimo and two snow-blind fleas to Paramount (for use under klieg lights), to pitch himself or a client into the newspapers. Last week Moran was landing in print again, on a coast-to-coast search for "the happiest girl in America-a girl as happy as a Lark." His client: Studebaker's Lark...
...Even monkeys fall from trees," runs an old Japanese proverb. Last week the wiliest arborealist in the Japanese political jungle crashed ingloriously to earth. He was Liberal-Democrat Party Board Chairman Ichiro Kono, the beady-eyed, roly-poly little man who for a decade has personified in his countrymen's minds the guile of political party intrigue...
...extended to Afghanistan by the departing Russians would be used for peaceful projects, i.e., hydroelectric power, irrigation, etc. In effect, said Daoud, Afghanistan is still free "to shop" with the West. The hint was heavily underlined: the Afghans, who like to think of themselves as the Orient's wiliest wheeler-dealers, were inviting the U.S. (which has already granted Afghanistan credits amounting to some $50 million) to outbid the Communists...