Word: boom
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This book, first published in 1938, is one of Vladimir Nabokov's prehumous works. Like The Real Life of Sebastian Knight and Invitation to a Beheading, it was buried under critical neglect and popular apathy when it appeared, is now gaining a second life through the continuing Lolita boom. But Laughter in the Dark only superficially resembles Lolita; it is closer to the Heinrich Mann novel that became The Blue Angel, the famed Marlene Dietrich film of the same general setting and period. At its loftiest, Nabokov's theme is the degradation, by lust, of dignity and intellect...
...Philip Sporn of the American Electric Power Co. Inc. announced that his company has adopted a new "bird" technique of working on high-tension lines. The lineman does not climb the tower. Instead, he sits in a plastic bucket and is raised to the wire by a truck-mounted boom made of insulating fiber glass. When he reaches the wire, he clamps to it a cable that is connected to metal mesh lining the bucket. This operation sounds suicidal, but it is not. The current moves into the mesh, charging it along with the lineman's body. Nothing more...
...boom for U.S. singers in Europe may not continue much longer. Although German managers are eager to get Americans, who generally have had a broader musical education than young European singers, the German Theater Union is bitterly opposed to imported talent. Germany should not be a training ground, the union argues, for foreign singers. Moreover, most of the provincial houses already have as many Americans on their rosters as they can handle, and the hundreds of hopefuls who flock across the Atlantic each year are finding jobs increasingly scarce. The U.S., one critic pointed out last week, will either have...
Miserable little Qatar (pop. 35,000), a sun-seared knuckle of sand and stone jutting into the Persian Gulf, was a latecomer in the Middle East oil boom. But when oil poured out in 1949 and the gold started pouring in, wizened old (69) Sheik Ali bin Abdullah bin Qasim Al Thani had no trouble adjusting his spending habits to those of the other sheiks of Araby...
...both industry and education will watch the results closely. Grolier hopes to sell $5,000,000 worth of Min-Max machines and programed courses in the first year, give a boost to Grolier profits ($2,100,000 in 1960's first half). If Grolier succeeds, the teaching-machine boom will...