Word: booked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Overdue. Despite this irony, the book has roused the nation. All over the U.S. last week the "Ugly American" was being transformed into the "Articulate American"-a citizen trained to go overseas with brains, skill and understanding. In the biggest effort so far, Washington's American University announced a six-week course sponsored by the 70-corporation Business Council for International Understanding, which will train any U.S. executive (and wife) before he tackles a foreign assignment. Aims: a working knowledge of the new culture and language, an ability to explain and defend the U.S. abroad, expert tutoring from State...
...dressing room at Los Angeles' cramped Olympic Auditorium, Moore (5 ft. 3 in., 126 Ibs.) gulped a tablespoonful of honey half an hour before the fight ("It puts the sweetness back into you"), performed perfunctory stoops and bends, and thumbed the Bible ("I just open the Good Book and read whatever I come to"). Then he set out to take Bassey apart. When Bassey did not come to him, Counter-Puncher Moore went to Bassey, blasting home occasional shots to the body with such force that the Nigerian's gasps were heard in the balcony. By the tenth...
...fact that, after a night of battle, the country's flag was still there. The Polish national anthem celebrates the fact that, after centuries of battle, the country is still there. This cautious, realistic anthem -"Poland is not yet lost"-could serve as the theme of this book. The Frozen Revolution undertakes to explain how it happened that Poland is still there and that its cause-vital to the West-is not yet lost...
...work. An Austrian railroad executive and his wife hire her as a maid, and she does so well that they want to adopt her. Ironically, doctors find Eva "a perfect specimen of the Aryan race." (Author Levin seems to have a fix on naked physical strip-downs ; the book offers at least three.) But adoption would mean discovery of Eva's false documents, and so she breaks out of the snug roundhouse and into an office job at a nearby munitions plant...
Trapped. Author Warren's revelatory cave is in the Tennessee hill country. Lying near by, as the book opens, are a pair of boots and a guitar. Warren describes them at length, with a simplicity and precision that is somehow ominous-and a little too mannered not to be irritating. Their significance becomes clear when a country boy and his girl, wandering through the woods with their minds on country matters, see the boots and realize that they belong to the boy's brother. The news spreads in the nearby town that Jasper Harrick is trapped...