Word: bottom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unhappy Generals. The People's Liberation Army-now 2,600,000 strong-is by far the most impressive product of Red China, but there is evidence of dissatisfaction at the top and bottom of the army. Among the generals, those having a guerrilla mentality conflict with the professionals, who argue that to obtain the supplies needed by a modern army, China must cooperate closely with the Soviet Union. Defense Minister Peng Teh-huai, leading spokesman for the professionals, was dismissed from his post in 1959, but remains a member...
...name-dropping, people like the Lunts, Rodgers & Hammerstein, Noel Coward and George Kaufman troop through the pages of her book. In her one stage appearance in The Royal Family, a savagely funny take-off of the Barrymores, which she wrote with Kaufman, Louis Calhern accidentally dropped her on her bottom as he carried her up a stage staircase. In Paris during the last days of World War II, she met Mike Todd decked out in what appeared to be a porter's uniform decorated with countless rows of ribbons, medals, and stars and bars of every rank. "Any sonofabitch...
...their way. A model of Communist planning, the nether world has menus but no food, steam baths without steam, hotels without beds. There is even a magazine editor who "sweats all over" as he "puts in quotes and takes them out again and reads each page from top to bottom and from bottom to top." Says one Big Brotherly ghost: "You don't have to talk, you don't have to think at all." Terkin finally manages to escape and wakes up in a hospital on earth, where doctors confidently predict that he will live...
...towering fire coral, 25 feet under the ocean off Key West. His tiny quarry, a 1½-in. jewel fish, iridescent blue spots gleaming on the deeper velvet blue of its body, hesitated at the coral's edge; half a dozen gaudy parrot fish cruised along the ocean bottom, crunching and chittering as they fed. Cautiously, Roberts extended his gun toward the jewel fish, then quickly pulled the plunger, sucking his victim through the transparent barrel and down into the holding chamber below...
...skindiving student had surfaced rapidly from the bottom of a 14-ft. training tank in Seattle, and despite his training, he had evidently held his breath all the way up. Within seconds, he was half unconscious, and his left side was paralyzed. The instructor and his diving comrades rushed the victim to General Practitioner Charles A. Kruse, who had two important qualifications for handling the case: his of fice was near by, and he is an enthusiastic skindiver himself...