Word: accountants
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...columnist for the Saturday Review and Emmy Award-winning work as a television producer, published Incident at Exeter. In it he concluded that the unidentified flying objects sighted and reported around the country were of extraterrestrial origin. A year later, he wrote The Interrupted Journey, the preposterous account of a Portsmouth, N.H., couple who claimed to have been abducted by unearthly creatures...
Given these credentials, Fuller is unlikely to be trusted by readers concerned with accuracy, responsibility or perception. A pity. For Fuller has just written a true, tragic account of Seveso. Italy, a town ravaged by a toxic chemical. The "Italian Hiroshima" occurred shortly after noon on July 10, 1976, when a chemical reactor at Icmesa, a plant owned by the Swiss firm of Hoffmann-La Roche, overheated, then blew its safety valve and released a huge grayish cloud into the clear Italian sky. Workers and company officials assumed that the cloud and the droplets that fell from it onto homes...
...came from an Israeli police source. When he heard the news, TIME'S David Halevy rushed from his home outside Tel Aviv and reached the scene of action before the bus captured by Palestinian terrorists burst into flames. The first journalist to arrive, Halevy got an eyewitness account of the battle with the terrorists that provoked last week's crisis in the Middle East...
...even resorted to shameless application of his Government expense account. He held business breakfasts and dinners for dozens. He plied hundreds of doubters with 100-proof Maxwell House coffee, and it may yet be proved that in the interests of the republic he authorized a three-martini lunch for a recalcitrant Senator or two. It is a fact that first-class limousine service was employed with abandon to cart the doubters up and down Pennsylvania Avenue...
...world has vanished; Jewish Poland went up in the smoke of the Holocaust. All that remains in the minds of most readers is some pictures, histories-and the imperishable memoirs of Isaac Bashevis Singer. In this brief, exalted account of his youth and his country's decline, the author summons memories of Warsaw when intellectuals argued the merits of Marxism, Zionism, atheism and love-above and below all, love. The preternaturally shy Isaac had his difficulties with older women and young ones. But Sabina, Stefa, Gina were as much a part of his education as the volumes he held...