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Divorced. John Schlesinger, 43, one of South Africa's biggest land developers, currently worth $70 million; by Anna Lee Iva Schlesinger, 42, a New Yorker he married during a World War II stint as a U.S. Air Force bombardier; on uncontested grounds of adultery; after 22 years of marriage, including eight years of separation, and two children; in Pretoria, South Africa...
...political and economic cooperation within the Alliance. He speaks regularly and perceptively on the problems of Germany and of Viet Nam. On the domestic scene, he is an authority on issues ranging from Medicare to middle-income housing, civil rights to civic beautification, the arts to the sciences. New Yorker Javits can even wax oracular about agriculture. "Ask him something about apple-growing," says New York State G.O.P. Treasurer Bill Pfeiffer, "and you would think he had been growing them all his life...
...Yorker who writes English fiction and who travels on his native Dutch passport, Koningsberger waited four years for a visa, then last summer made one of those brief tours, with stops in Peking, Shanghai, Nanking, Hangchow and Canton, that Peking now conducts for non-Americans...
...gunned them down. Not so, insists a civilian witness: the troopers had been commanded to bolt and then were callously murdered. Getting at the truth turns out to be like peeling through several skins of an onion. First-Novelist Frederick Keefe, who is an editor of The New Yorker, conducts his unhappy murderer-lieutenant to a surprise ending. But it is about the only surprise in this otherwise pat and overseemly saga...
Newsmen & Buddhists. Fried is not alone in feeling that by and large the Saigon press corps has been taken in by the Buddhists. There are, to be sure, a few exceptions, notably The New Yorker's Robert Shaplen, 49, the Saigon correspondent most universally respected by both his colleagues and Washington observers. Close behind him in both respect and expertise is the Reporter's Warner. Both have painstakingly documented the myriad activities of Thich Tri Quang as he moves above and below the surface to extend his influence...