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  • The Adaptation

    It was several weeks ago that I started to read the novels of acclaimed political thriller novelist John le Carré. I was immediately hooked on his writing when I started to read his first novel, Call For The Dead. I just finished his third book, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.  It was…

  • For Mankind

    Last week was the 56th anniversary of Apollo 11’s liftoff from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A. While I don’t remember that historic mission, I do remember watching the later Apollo missions, glued to our color TV set (yes, we had a color TV set in the early 1970s). It was a time of extraordinary…