Word: arsonist
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Bonfires of hate burned menacingly across the Middle East last week, and the man with the matches was that incurable arsonist, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser. In Aden, grenade-tossing pro-Nasser terrorists roamed virtually out of control through the British colony's streets. To the north in Yemen, a regime that owes its authority to an Egyptian occupation army, acting on Nasser's counsel, all but dared the U.S. to break off relations with it.* Even as far away as Kenya, Nasser's fine hand was evident as the Kenyan army discovered Egyptian land mines...
...Beards. The heaviest barrage of all came from Vice President Hubert Humphrey in New Zealand, who took time out from his Asian tour to liken Kennedy's proposal to "a prescription which includes a dose of arsenic," putting "an arsonist in a fire department," and, for good measure, setting "a fox in a chicken coop...
...loans), with interest rates some times ranging up to 20% a week, by which sharks and syndicates have milked and bankrupted laboring men and businesses. The Administration also urged passage of a bill sent to Congress by the Justice Department that would make arson a federal offense when the arsonist crosses a state line. This was aimed at racketeers, who, according to the National Board of Fire Underwriters, are believed to have been behind 124 business fires, in which insurance totaled $16 million, in 17 states in the past ten years...
...foreign, can hardly wait for that happy day. Meanwhile, the new $34 million building program should at least make life more enjoyable for a crackpot who tried to burn down Beethoven's birthplace (now a museum) a few years ago. Asked why he had done it, the arsonist demanded with impeccable logic: "In this whole town, what else is there worth burning...
Sake & Geishas. As Mizoguchi, the future arsonist, is born to know it, life is a visitation of plagues. His face is ugly. He stammers. His best way of expressing an early-teen-age love is to jump out of a bamboo thicket in the path of his girl's bicycle and scare her half to death. One terrible night, he witnesses his mother in the act of adultery. It is typical of Author Mishima's gift for powerful indirection that this entire episode is conveyed in terms of a ripple of mosquito netting...